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I only know a few phrases in Russian, Mandarin, and Japanese. Are those write only languages due to their intrinsic properties or my unfamiliarity?
by chromatic 14y ago
I only know a few phrases in Russian, Mandarin, and Japanese. Are those write only languages due to their intrinsic properties or my unfamiliarity?
- Cieplak 14y agoIt is a joke. To quote Guido Van Rossum, "if you look at it from 10km above, Python and Ruby and Perl are exactly the same language". I find it funny when people hate on Perl for its syntax, because it's so similar to languages people rave about. Perl's syntax is very expressive and if one knew it, it would seem as natural as Python's whitespace to a Pythonista.
- chromatic 14y agoGuido's right. I often forget the trailing colon in conditionals in Python the same way that I almost always include a trailing comma after the final element of a list in JavaScript. I don't have these problems in Haskell.