Or Python+.
Interesting all the comparisons to Java, with me coming from an environment where Java is never used, never considered, largely never thought about. If Java is mentioned at all, it's usually something like "my kid took a programming class in college, and they used Java, why would they use something like that?". I suppose Cobol was like that: widely used, very widely used, but not used at all in many circles.
(By "not using", I mean for instance that in Python, like Javascript, at any moment, you may set a new method on a particular instance, and the Python runtime must deal with that, such as by spending a lot of time looking up references that never actually change in a real program. This is a really expensive feature that you are paying for all the time, yet rarely using. A great deal of the JIT speedup you can get in such languages is working out how to skip those lookups optimistically until someone actually changes them.)
type fooParams struct { Name string Age int Address string }
foo( fooParams{ Name = "Bob", Age = 24 } )
Defaults are a lot harder to do in a way that doesn't just suck. You can make a DefaultFooParam that has all the defaults... but it's not pretty.
List comprehensions never seemed like a big deal to me. It's 3-4 lines for a loop, which is probably easier to read than the list comprehension anyway.
that's totally a nope.
def qsort(L):
if len(L) <= 1: return L
return qsort([lt for lt in L[1:] if lt < L[0]]) + [L[0]] + qsort([ge for ge in L[1:] if ge >= L[0]])This is classic "I'm trying too hard to make my code look clever rather than make it readable and easy to understand".
I was making the very opposite point. I think Java programmers tend to underestimate the circles where it is not used. In particular, it seems that those who would not describe themselves as professional programmers but who nevertheless need to program tend to not use Java. And it's not all Python/Perl/Basic/Tcl/Bash; C++ (and C) are also widely used.