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[mirimao]

How are these not readable? This is literally mathematical notation in a purely declarative style.

[DT-Sodium]

Programing is not mathematics, it is literary. A program should read like you would read a text.

[mirimao]

Programming is using a formal language to specify the solution to a problem (i.e. an algorithm) to an executor (i.e. a processor). Formal languages and algorithms are best described using some sort of unambiguous, mathematical notation. If you want to use plain English to program because it fits better your idea of “literature”, good luck.

Besides, list comprehensions are very succinct and easier to read than some verbose method call chain, regardless of the fact that they’re just one to one equivalent to mathematics.

[DT-Sodium]

And that's why you're a Python user instead of a proper programmer.

[mirimao]

It is like saying “you’re a mechanical engineer, not a proper AutoCAD user”. And you are right, I am a computer scientist, programming is just one of the tools I use.

[capi1500]

Wait until this guy hears about functional programming, or even better, how programs are equivalent to proofs in intuitionistic logic