On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:11:51 -0700, sturlamolden wrote: > On 22 Mar, 23:42, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Beginning programmers in grades 9-12 are not going to understand issues >> like that, and it would be a mistake to try and introduce them. >> Beginning programmers should be concentrating their efforts on learning >> the syntax of a language and basic constructs like for-loops and if >> statements. > > Yes. And because Python is a "scripting language"
Python is a programming language. It can be used for scripting, but that's not all it can do. Describing it as a "scripting language" is like describing a fully-equipped professional kitchen as "a left-over warming room". -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list