[Tutor] Decorators

Bob Gailer bgailer at alum.rpi.edu
Wed Apr 12 00:10:20 CEST 2006


Andrew D. Fant wrote:
> [snip]  try crossing lisp
> with APL for a mathematically pure language that nobody can ever read.
>   
One problem is that APL allowed unbalanced parentheses (as in )SAVE), 
whereas LISP does not. And of course there is the right-to-left vs 
left-to-right issue...

I do miss the incredible succinctness of APL. One "line noise" character 
was worth (say) 10 lines of (say) Fortran.

I'd like to see some APL-ness added to Python, as I struggle to write a 
comprehension equivalent to one APL character.


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