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this statement makes we wonder: what does pythonic exactly mean?
by entelechy 8y ago
this statement makes we wonder: what does pythonic exactly mean?
- orblivion 8y agoThe important part to me is good ergonomics from the point of view of the programmer and reader. Beyond that, some particulars: * Being terse is a lower priority than usual * Cool features are a lower priority than usual * Be careful how you use and then re-use symbols (Haskell can be confusing this way). * Use English (or whatever spoken language) in your symbols
- jakear 8y agoCoconut seems anti all of those. In particular all of the weird infix operators ( ` $.> `, ` :&$ `, etc) [1]. Gives me flashbacks to dealing with Haskell. [1]: I just made those up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were real.
- tayo42 8y agoI've started to hate the phrase pythonic at work. its ambiguous and leads to bikesheding.
- pseudalopex 8y agoWhen talking about a language it usually means the design principles summarized in "The Zen of Python"[1]. When talking about Python code it can also mean "idiomatic". [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/