On Aug 4, 8:06 pm, iu2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a little bit strange post, but I'm curious... > > I learned Python from its tutorial step by step, and practicing > writing small scripts. > I haven't seen a Python program before knowing Python. > > I'm curious, what did Python code look like to those of you who have > seen a bunch of Python code for the first time before knowing Python? > > (I can tell, for example, that seeing perl for the first time looked > like C with many $$$, I could see "if" and "for" and "while" but they > were meaningless. Or Lisp for the first time looked like many words, > no operators, how could that make a program???) > > Thanks
Strange you should mention this. I am currently new to Rosetta Code http://www.rosettacode.org/ where some pages I have been looking at such as the page for Zig Zag, and a page I created called Spiral have had very terse solutions, and long explanations in the talk pages all written in the J language. I can read the lines between the code samples enough to intrigue , (OK frustrate), me - but the code is impenetrable. I am not sure if J attracts good programmers or if learning J forces you to think about solutions in different or useful ways. I've learnt A LISP-like language, dabbled with forth & prolog & constraints - maybe its time to learn J and find out if this array programming malarky will bring new insight to my problem solving - but it will never be readable :-) - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list