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Guido van Possum has expressed distaste for list comprehension. Take that for what it's worth. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296280 https://news.ycomb
by rajman187 4y ago
Guido van Possum has expressed distaste for list comprehension. Take that for what it's worth.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296280
- pjmlp 4y agoHe was also against having any kind of lambda, and the one line version was the concession he was willing to let in.
- ubertaco 4y agoI realize that "Guido van Possum" was almost certainly a typo here, but it _does_ make for an amusing mental image. I wonder what other forest creatures might have built programming languages? C++ built by Björn "the bear" Stroustrup? C# built by Anders Honeybadger? Ruby by Yukihiro "Catz" Cat-sumoto?
- rajman187 4y agoIndeed an autocorrect. But it was definitely Graydon Boar who created Rust
- klodolph 4y agoFrom the link, it sounds like GvR has expressed distaste for functional programming idioms like map/reduce, but not for list comprehensions. At least it's not Go's "You gonna write a for loop or what?"