Hi all, Following up on Udi's announcement, I open this thread for the group to discuss ways to contribute to the conference. In the following paragraphs, I am going to throw in my two cents worth.
This article looks really old (year 2000), but I only first stumbled upon it a few minutes ago: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882 It's by Eric Raymond, portraying the story of how he came to know Python and to prefer it over Perl. It's an interesting read in itself, but if somebody wants to elaborate on one's own experience with Python (or Django), one can draw a few points and ideas from that article. And if nobody can present their own, then somebody might take Eric Raymond's story and make a presentation of it in stead. Here are some interesting excerpts from the article, in case you do not have time to read all of it: "Far better to trade a few cycles and a few kilobytes of memory for the overhead of a scripting language's memory manager and economize on far more valuable human time." "Oddly enough, Python's use of whitespace stopped feeling unnatural after about twenty minutes. I just indented code, pretty much as I would have done in a C program anyway, and it worked." "I was generating working code nearly as fast as I could type." "When you're writing working code nearly as fast as you can type and your misstep rate is near zero, it generally means you've achieved mastery of the language. [...] Most languages have so much friction and awkwardness built into their design that you learn most of their feature set long before your misstep rate drops anywhere near zero. Python was the first general-purpose language I'd ever used that reversed this process." "Thirty-two lines, counting comments. [...] But the size of this code isn't the real shocker. Brace yourself: this code only took me about ninety minutes to write—and it worked correctly the first time I ran it." Yours, Amir -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyWeb-IL" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyweb-il?hl=en. _______________________________________________ Python-il mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-il
