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:: You think so ? look more carefully: the declarative definition of '''Van Eck''' there is significantly '''more''' concise (7 lines of new code vs 11), a smaller number of moving parts, no side effects or mutations) than the slightly messy procedural recipe next to it, which you touchingly characterise as 'idiomatic'. |
:: You think so ? look more carefully: the declarative definition of '''Van Eck''' there is significantly '''more''' concise (7 lines of new code vs 11), a smaller number of moving parts, no side effects or mutations) than the slightly messy procedural recipe next to it, which you touchingly characterise as 'idiomatic'. |
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:: The declarative version also adheres to a long-established principle of productivity, ease of refactoring, and maintenance of quality ''Use library functions whenever feasible'' which is foregrounded by the classic work of Kernighan and Plauger :-) [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 14:57, 14 August 2020 (UTC) |
:: The declarative version also adheres to a long-established principle of productivity, ease of refactoring, and maintenance of quality ''Use library functions whenever feasible'' which is foregrounded by the classic work of Kernighan and Plauger :-) [[User:Hout|Hout]] ([[User talk:Hout|talk]]) 14:57, 14 August 2020 (UTC) |
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:::Hard to argue with someone who can't count the lines of code shown, and equates their code with something from the standard library. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 16:13, 14 August 2020 (UTC) |
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