Today, while surfing The Net, I bumped into this blog post from Marco Russo, a C# programmer.
Basically he is saying that generics are such a great feature because with them you can write stuff like this:
List integers = new List();
for(int i=1; i<=10; i++) integers.Add(i);
int sum;
integers.ForEach(delegate(int i){ sum+=i; });
Now, after reading that thing 3 times I realized that all it was doing was to sum the first 10 integers which can be done in this way using python:
sum([x for x in xrange(11)])
Maybe times will come, when people will realize that such poor languages, like C# or java, are nowhere near highly dynamic ones like Python. And machine power is not giving them any reason to be learned.
2 Comments:
Yes, you can, but then you wouldn't do the same thing that the C# code did.
Since that code is creating a list and adding each element to that list then summing each element. Yes, sum builds a list, but what if those numbers, instead of being the first 10 integers, were the first 10 prime numbers? then range wouldn't have worked anymore.
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