<story><title>Coconut: Pythonic functional programming</title><url>http://coconut-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diarmuidc</author><text>Looking at the example code, it seems that this is perl-ifying Python. And I&amp;#x27;m not saying that as a good thing. The code is more terse and less readable &amp;amp; understandable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s haskellfying it.&lt;p&gt;Some of those are very needed constructions (like algebraic data types with pattern matching), but it&amp;#x27;s adding an entire sub-language into a language that is built on the goal of being simple. I&amp;#x27;m not sold into it either.</text></comment>
<story><title>Coconut: Pythonic functional programming</title><url>http://coconut-lang.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diarmuidc</author><text>Looking at the example code, it seems that this is perl-ifying Python. And I&amp;#x27;m not saying that as a good thing. The code is more terse and less readable &amp;amp; understandable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>orblivion</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to see an actually pythonic Haskell. Needs the right designer.</text></comment>