[Haskell-cafe] Python?

[Lemming]

Daniel Carrera wrote:

> This might be a strange question to ask on a Haskell list, but I do want 
> to hear your opinions. What do you think of Python?

I learnt it some years ago to do some simple text processing. Eventually 
I used it for three small projects. I learnt to hate dynamic typing, I 
learnt to hate that a forgotten 'return' is interpreted as 'return 
None', I didn't like that some types were mutable and others not. The 
documentation is poor due to missing types. Maybe it is due to the 
documentation (indexing) or because of the module structure, but it is 
hard to find the functions you need. I found that regular expressions 
are not of that big help for parsing texts. I missed some support for 
processing data 'on the fly'. Haskell's laziness makes a great job in 
this respect. I'm now porting one of my Python projects to Haskell and 
it is really more fun.