I think his point is that most of his students (economics or business, rather than comp sci) will never need to use Perl or C or Java. Python is friendly enough to be useful, but this is still a major pain point.
The problem is made worse because it often hits at the beginning instead of 7 lessons in, when they would have some reason to think it is worth struggling through and will eventually work. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/XWBEK2Q3DBY3M7HV7BN2GJPJCMPXJPQB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/