lol :) i loved the 'enterprise programmer' version ...
The Evolution of a Python Programmer
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Re: The Evolution of a Python Programmer
#42The original: http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html (Haskell)
The (actual) original: http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer....
Re: The Evolution of a Python Programmer
#43Half of those are incorrect implementations that junk the stack and most of the rest are idiotic rebaked jokes from the late 90s. Nowhere near to http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html which is not only enlightening but actually funny when it tries to; or even to http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/The_Evolution_of_a_Programmer.... which was funny when it started and still is the original. Can we stop mak…
I actually thought this was the best thing I read today. So please don't stop posting these.
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Re: The Evolution of a Python Programmer
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
A 'lazier programmer' who actually checked the optimization of various factorial methods? There's a joke in there somewhere...
a lazy programmer is one who will write a shell script in an hour to generate three lines of boilerplate...
It's worth it, if you have to type the boilerplate code hundreds of times. Consider the time wasted in debugging errors due to typos etc. It's even more worth if that shell script (or, in my case an emacs yasnippet) is parameterized.
Re: The Evolution of a Python Programmer
#45Memoized version:
class Factorial(object):
def __init__(self):
self.n = 0
self.fact_n = 1
def next_fact(self):
self.fact_n *= (self.n + 1)
self.n += 1
def prev_fact(self):
self.fact_n /= self.n
self.n -= 1
def fact(self, n):
if n == self.n:
return self.fact_n
elif n > self.n:
# start from self.n working forward
self.next_fact()
return self.fact(n)
else:
# start from fact_n working backwards
self.prev_fact()
return self.fact(n)
fobj = Factorial()
print fobj.fact(6)
print fobj.fact(8)
print fobj.fact(3)