Re: Spot The Error
On 02/21/2011 08:13 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Some Python aficionados, but not all of them, have enough experience across
a broad range of languages to have some perspective about things. How would
you compare your experience in that group versus this one? I get the feeling
the experience among this lot is a bit more narrow.
I have coded non-trivial programs in Basic, JavaScript, Java, Python,
Ruby, PHP, assembly (a few different variants), C, C++, Smalltalk,
Matlab, bash, and FORTRAN (in no particular order). Yes, I am lacking in
the functional language department, although my usage of JavaScript is
mostly tied into a single implementation (SpiderMonkey, to be specific)
which allows me to use more of its functional features.
On the other hand, I have fallen in love with features supported by none
of those languages (okay, Smalltalk has it, but I am so unfamiliar with
its library that it's easier for me to kludge through, say, Python
instead of learn it just for a feature), e.g., continuations. So it's
not like I'm narrow-minded when it comes to language features.
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