[ABE.pm] dinner on Wednesday the 20th

James E Keenan jkeenan at pobox.com
Wed Dec 20 11:53:35 PST 2017


On 12/20/2017 01:46 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> If you're on the fence about tonight, I'll be talking about my
> experiences in doing this year's Advent of Code problems in both Perl
> and Python. Which means I'll mainly be ranting about Python:
> 
> * no closures!
> * ranges!
> * having to manually convert strings of digits to ints, like an animal!
> 
> And more!
> 
> Walt
> 
> P.S. Really, why does everyone harp on Python's syntactic whitespace
> when their ranges are so much worse?

I look forward to hearing *that* as a lightning talk (but won't be there 
tonight).

jimk


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