The creators of the Python language are mulling a new proposal, PEP 622, that would finally bring a pattern matching statement syntax to Python.The new pattern matching statements would give ...

That’s because Python uses a very nice syntax that looks extremely similar to English. To define a function, we simply use the statement “def.” Can you guess what that’s short for?

As a C programmer for decades, my mind rebelled against the idea. "Nonsense," "Absurd" and "Too simple" were my knee-jerk reactions. Taken to its ultimate end, this premise suggests that code golf-- ...