Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

Jonathan Gardner jgardner at jonathangardner.net
Thu Feb 18 17:49:38 EST 2010


On Feb 18, 8:15 am, Steve Howell <showel... at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>     def print_numbers()
>         [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map { |n|
>             [n * n, n * n * n]
>         }.reject { |square, cube|
>             square == 25 || cube == 64
>         }.map { |square, cube|
>             cube
>         }.each { |n|
>             puts n
>         }
>     end
>

If this style of programming were useful, we would all be writing Lisp
today. As it turned out, Lisp is incredibly difficult to read and
understand, even for experienced Lispers. I am pleased that Python is
not following Lisp in that regard.

for n in range(1,6):
    square = n*n
    cube = n*n*n
    if square == 25 or cube == 64: continue
    print cube



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