On 2007-05-12, walterbyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> He's thinking in Pascal, not C. > > Actually, I have programmed in many languages. I just first learned in > Pascal. > > For me, going from Pascal, to basic,c,cobol,fortran . . was not that > difficult.
That's because those languages are all very similar in most of the basic concepts. > Python, however, feels strange. That's because it's different than the languages you already knew. I might be an eye-opener to learn some other "strange" languages: Prolog, Scheme, Smalltalk, APL, Erlang, Haskell, Eiffel, ... > As crazy as this may sound: Python, in some ways, reminds me > of assembly language. I haven' t programmed in assembly in a > *long* time. But I vaugly remember doing a lot of stuff where > I used memory addresses as pointers to data, and also as > pointers to pointers. Although, when I first started assembly > language, I think it took me a week to write a program to > print "hello world." I still do assembly language stuff pretty regularly, and I don't really see any similarity between Python and assembly (at least not for the targets I work with). -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
