PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL

My Favorite Pieces of Syntax in 8 Different Programming Languages

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The Startup

5 min readJul 16, 2020

We love to criticize programming languages.

We also love to quote Bjarne Stroustrup:

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

So today I decided to flip things around and talk about pieces of syntax that I appreciate in some of the various programming languages I have used.

This is by no means an objective compilation and is meant to be a fun quick read.

I must also note that I’m far from proficient in most of these languages. Focusing on that many languages would probably be very counter-productive.

Nevertheless, I’ve at least dabbled with all of them. And so, here’s my list:

def squares(limit):
    return [num*num for num in range(0, limit)]