On Monday, 24 February 2014 at 11:25:18 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
This semester I'm having to learn Python as part of my degree.
Unfortunately.
From a period of 5 hours today I have already gleamed this:
You youngsters, you learn it all so fast! (Just kidding :-)))
Python community doesn't really care about 64 bit much;
OK maybe
50 ways to do something? sure
But the python principle is "there's only one way to do it"
but lets not make it really really amazing.
Perfect is the enemy of good enough :-)
Building very large systems is best done like laying out a
tableau of cards, you do the first 7, then another 7 on top etc.
If you try to get it perfect first time you'll get it wrong and
probably never finish it anyway.
Over complicated? not really, needs more in fact.
Not sure what you mean?
From coming from the D perspective it can be quite challenging
for me. I would rather as a community we focus on projects
together (which we do quite well already) than split off and do
our own thing.
The other thing is, making things just work. In as many use
cases as possible.
With open source projects each person scratches their own itch -
it's really hard to find people who will do what other people
want, for free. Having said that, I'm not sure what you mean, can
you elaborate?
I usually go in the deep end when I start learning a language
so this probably doesn't reflect the python community
completely.
It's a very large heterogeneous community so hard to typecast...
I'm very interested in how you get on so keep posting...
