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Portraying widely held opinions as propaganda is quite counter-productive, bordering on denial. Given that you provide no reasoning one way or another, I cannot
by pierrebai 5y ago
Portraying widely held opinions as propaganda is quite counter-productive, bordering on denial. Given that you provide no reasoning one way or another, I cannot say more about your personal views, but...
Denying Python's simplicity is surprising. Clarity of syntax, avoiding superfluous tokens, and ordering of code in speak-order are a few of the reason for it's simplicity. Interestingly, Python fails at syntax clarity exactly where it adopts functional-style construct: list-comprehension for example.
Like it or not, a language, like Lisp, which insist on polish notation is just unnatural, at least for most western speakers. (I don't know any spoken language that would map to placing verbs first in a sentence.)
- anaerobicover 5y ago> (I don't know any spoken language that would map to placing verbs first in a sentence.) There are some less spoken, and some more widely spoken languages have this as an optional possibility. Verb-Subject-Object order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb%E2%80%93subject%E2%80%93object https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb%E2%80%93subject%E2%80%93o...
- taeric 5y agoThis is silly. All programming is already in the same order for anything not math. And even math has plenty of prefix usage. Sigma, gamma, etc. So, I should use another term than propaganda, as that is negatively loaded. Consider it, rather, effective marketing. Edit: and apologies on dodging the point on python being simple. I really don't know how to respond on that. I still fight heavily to read most python I am exposed to, as it would be way easier in sql for most of the etl I see.
- oblio 5y agoMany (most?) programmers don't like (formal) math.