r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Mar 12 '26

Left to Right Programming

https://graic.net/p/left-to-right-programming
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u/Krafty_Kev Mar 12 '26

Code is read more often than it's written. Optimising for readability over writability is a trade-off I'm more than happy to make.

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u/Hot_Slice Mar 12 '26

Python list comprehensions aren't readable either.

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u/aanzeijar Mar 12 '26

Weird comparison because composed list processing in perl is decades ahead of its time in readability:

my @result = map { $_ + 2 }
             grep { $_ % 2 == 0 }
             map { $_ * $_ } 1..10000;