Alternative syntax for Python's lambda

Posted Mar 6, 2021 15:23 UTC (Sat) by Deleted user 129183 (guest, #129183)
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> There's a point where you need to start working on a new language
> I would love to have a Python 4.0 which is a feature freeze of Python 3.x, and the announcement of Snake-0.3b1: like Python but with X and Y and also Z!

Erm…

*looks at ~Perl 6~ Raku*

I don’t think that it’s actually a great idea.

(and I mean its adoption, not the language itself)

Alternative syntax for Python's lambda

Posted Mar 15, 2021 7:37 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

A delayed language will eventually be good; a language that gets rushed to meet nonsense deadlines will become the legacy code everyone curses for decades to come.

The most baffling thing to me about the whole epic of Raku isn't how it concluded, but that as recently as last week I still see people who think they're clever for regurgitating hateful Perl 6 FUD from the era when it was still called Perl 6, Slashdot was a relevant tech site, and comparisons to Duke Nukem Forever were still valid. The language is a good tool to write in, but it's accidentally just as valuable for its ability to quickly expose the sort of people with ossified brains and odious worldviews most of us wouldn't want anything to do with.