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Why not Python?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-27 15:32

What's wrong with Python?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-27 15:34

FIOC

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-27 15:53

>>1
Guido.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-27 16:05

>>2
Why is it a bad thing? Don't we all indent our code? As a Haskellite, I can say that I have never chosen to drop the OIOC in favour of braces and semicolons.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-27 16:08

Don't we all indent our code?
This is the same sort of fallacious logic that destroyed all the civil liberties in the USA in the last 10 years.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-27 17:07

The Sussman deems it unscientific and ultimately destructive.

Indeed, one often hears arguments against building flexibility into an engineered system. For example, in the philosophy of the computer language Python it is claimed: “There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it.” Science does not usually proceed this way: In classical mechanics, for example, one can construct equations of motion using Newtonian vectoral mechanics, or using a Lagrangian or Hamiltonian variational formulation. In the cases where all three approaches are applicable they are equivalent, but each has its advantages in particular contexts.
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/symbolic/spring07/readings/robust-systems.pdf

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-27 20:52

Whenever I feel unsure of something, the SUSSMAN appears just in time to show me the light.

Thank you, Sussman.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 1:52

>>4
Yes, we all indent our code, but sometimes we indent it differently.  For example, in scheme we might write a very small function on one line (if we even bother giving it a name).  Which segues to the next point - lambdas in python are only allowed one expression, no full statements or control structures.  Finally, Guido does not believe in optimizing tail calls in recursive functions1.

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[1] - http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/046171.html

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 3:40

>>8
Well, in Haskell for those sometimes when you need to indent differently, you can use braces and semi-colons. Haskell is just better.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 3:45

>>8
I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR GUIDOIC OVERLORD

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 3:52

Recursion just looks so sexy in Haskell with pattern matching. It's not half as confusing as Scheme. It's equally stupid in Python. CL you use LOOP. Ruby you use ruby.language.control_structures.recursion.recurse. Nah, only joking, I never learned Ruby because Ruby is slow as fuck.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 5:23

>>11
Actually, the new version of Ruby is meant to contain some sort of optimized VM, making it's speed comparable to Python.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 5:32

>>12
so it'll only be slow as ass instead of slow as fuck?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 5:50

Isn't HASKELL slower than RUBY?

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 6:09

>>14
Haskell is almost as fast as C.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 6:18

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Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 11:07

>>15
Not quite, it's currently almost as fast as Java:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all

Name: >>17 2008-06-28 11:08

But wastes way less memory than Java.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 11:24

>>15,17
Stop fooling yourself. Most of those programs are only nominally written in Haskell. The actual language used mostly consists of Data.ByteString.Unsafe and !, and is generally about as pleasant and readable as optimized x86 assembly.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 11:55

>>19
I've read somewhere that those benchmarks were made strict because the lazy ones cut corners and didn't do the same amount work that their equivalents in, say, Java did, thus being unfairly faster. Allegedly the strictness was not introduced to gain speed, but to lose it.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 12:21

>>20
[citation needed]

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 13:01

>>21
I've read somewhere that those benchmarks were made strict because the lazy ones cut corners and didn't do the same amount work that their equivalents in, say, Java did, thus being unfairly faster. Allegedly the strictness was not introduced to gain speed, but to lose it.[1]

References              
1. http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell@haskell.org/msg18863.html

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 13:57

>>22
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Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 14:29

Haskell is no where near C speed, don't lie to yourself.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 14:32

>>24
Haskell ran pretty fast, but still not fast enough that she could outrun the train... rest in peace, Haskell. You were our favorite singleton.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 15:10

>>25
Stop reminding that dog guy, please. I think he's serious.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 15:31

>>24
You can compile Haskell to C, numbnuts. Go back to wanking over your latest smart pointer implementation for your broken Sepples language.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 17:03

>>23
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Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 17:06

>>27
Jesus Fuck, I hope you're trolling. Because really.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 18:08

>>28
Original research.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 18:32

>>30
In case you're not trolling, read >>15,17-22

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 18:59

>>31
I can't see it published in a peer-reviewed journal anywhere, and it's by the author of the topic of the article.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 19:13

>>32
So you are trolling. Good day, sir.

Name: Anonymous 2008-06-28 22:18

>>32
Any post or tutorial about Haskell should be publishable in a respectable math journal and require deep knowledge of everything from Lie algebra to topology to be understood.

NO EXCEPTIONS

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-01 11:01

MZSCHEME IS FASTER THAN PYTHON
MZSCHEME IS ABOUT THE SPEED OF VISUALWORKS SMALLTALK
MZSCHEME, ALTHOUGH A PIECE OF SHIT, PUTS SHIT LIKE PYTHON, PERL, PHP, RUBY, SCALA, GROOVY, etc, TO SHAME>

FUCK YOUR SHIT LANGUAGE

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-01 14:13

>>35
Python with Psyco is about the same speed of Visualworks too.

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-01 14:50

Thread /prog/ conclusion:

toy languages suck, let's be manly and use C

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-01 15:33

>>37
Not manly: Practical.

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-01 15:58

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-01 16:59

>>39
EXPERT HASKELL TROLL

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