basketcasing

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1. 1.▲
   by basketcasing 11y ago

   Re. join, I think Perl got that one right: `join(glue, pieces)`. `','.join(pieces)` just seems unnecessarily weird, and present simply for OO's sake. Not everything needs to be some object's method.
2. 2.▲
   by basketcasing 11y ago

   Python is the least-worst general purpose imperative not-performance-critical OO scripting language. It has lots of problems (weird scoping, community issues, roundabout docs, `''.join()`, crippled lambda, no variable declarations
3. 3.▲
   by basketcasing 11y ago

   > > > Traditional hash tables are imperative data structures, and Lisp code (or Scheme code, at least) typically does not use them because of this. Association lists, which can be represented as literals, are persistent and {snip}
4. 4.▲
   by basketcasing 11y ago

   > Traditional hash tables are imperative data structures, and Lisp code (or Scheme code, at least) typically does not use them because of this. I don't understand that. > Association lists, which can be represented as literals, a
5. 5.▲
   by basketcasing 11y ago

   The one thing that keeps me away from Lisp/Scheme is the lack of built-in syntax for hashmaps and sets (I like Clojure's syntax, but don't want the JVM). I've never gotten the hang of car/cdr and dotted pairs.