Re:"On iteration": Why people leave Python
by swannodette on Friday February 05, 2010 @12:27AM
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Except that XPath, CSS, and Regex express the essence of well designed functional programs.
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Re:"On iteration": Why people leave Python
by nostrademons on Friday February 05, 2010 @01:37AM
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That's like saying that abstraction expresses the essence of well-designed functional programs. True, but so broad a statement as to be nearly meaningless. There's nothing about regexps that makes them closer to well-designed functional programs than well-designed OO programs or structured programs.