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Metric for Language Powerfulness?
(python-gazette.com)
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Python Gazette
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16y ago
It seems I have communicated poorly. The point is not that the type info makes the code bad code, but that one-liners are bad code and that one-liners are encouraged by requiring type declarations.
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I take it you find the one-liner more aesthetically appealing? I'm not arguing, just taking a survey. I'm deeply interested in what constitutes "good" code.
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There is an inferred point in this post, touched on in the last paragraph: that this tendency to lump a lot of operations into one line is less about bad language design and more about lazy programmers. I never stated that statically typed