Only since Python 3000, with the addition of the "nonlocal" declaration, can python claim to have closures. And yes, Python does also have "first-class functions"--in the same way that C has first-class functions. It's…
This is an awful lot of invective from one paragraph that, personally, implies an itinerant bad programmer migrating from 'cool language' to 'new cool language' and carting along everything he'd written before. If he…
Call Perl from Python This is an oldie but a goodie, but a lot of bad programmers don't realize they can make their Python code even worse, if they embed a bunch of untested, legacy, Perl code in it. There is a…
Only since Python 3000, with the addition of the "nonlocal" declaration, can python claim to have closures. And yes, Python does also have "first-class functions"--in the same way that C has first-class functions. It's…
This is an awful lot of invective from one paragraph that, personally, implies an itinerant bad programmer migrating from 'cool language' to 'new cool language' and carting along everything he'd written before. If he…
Call Perl from Python This is an oldie but a goodie, but a lot of bad programmers don't realize they can make their Python code even worse, if they embed a bunch of untested, legacy, Perl code in it. There is a…