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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: lambdak: multi-line lambda implementation in native Python
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On 2015-01-16, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> We're really quite spoiled in Python-land. It's easy
> to forget just *how* spoiled we are until you go back
> and try to do something in one of the more primitive
> languages...

I had to do some work in PHP yesterday -- fixing up some code that was
written by somebody who only knows how to write C++ [though he can do
it in several different languages].

There was lot's of quiet swearing.

--
Grant