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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Trans <transfire / gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 21, 6:01 pm, Dave Thomas <d... / pragprog.com> wrote:
> > At the risk of butting in, my two cents is that we no longer need the
> > sytax, as lambda can apparently do it all. And, if ever a syntactic
> > element needed to be retired, it's one that uses six (count'm, six)
> > punctuation characters. I think that beats Perl.
>
>   lambda{||}
>
> 10 characters. That's long for what it does. Sometimes punctuation is
> better. I mean, we wouldn't want to do:
>
>  4.add 5


less punctuation is better in almost any case but in the context of
mathematical operations. there once was a page where  languages where
compared by the amount of line noise they featured, but I don't find it now.
ruby was one of the best ....
-- henon

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<div classmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Trans <span dirtr">&lt;<a hrefailto:transfire / gmail.com">transfire / gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote classmail_quote" styleargin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Oct 21, 6:01&nbsp;pm, Dave Thomas &lt;<a hrefailto:d... / pragprog.com">d... / pragprog.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; At the risk of butting in, my two cents is that we no longer need the &nbsp;<br>
&gt; sytax, as lambda can apparently do it all. And, if ever a syntactic &nbsp;<br>
&gt; element needed to be retired, it&#39;s one that uses six (count&#39;m, six) &nbsp;<br>
&gt; punctuation characters. I think that beats Perl.<br>
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</div> &nbsp;lambda{||}<br>
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10 characters. That&#39;s long for what it does. Sometimes punctuation is<br>
better. I mean, we wouldn&#39;t want to do:<br>
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 &nbsp;4.add 5</blockquote><div><br></div><div>less punctuation is better in almost any case but in the context of mathematical operations. there once was a page where &nbsp;languages where compared by the amount of line noise they featured, but I don&#39;t find it now. ruby was one of the best ....<br>
-- henon</div></div>

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