Dear Chris, I will take your feedback into consideration and let you know the outcome when I have time to think about it.
Again, I appreciate your thoughts. Thanks for taking the time to think about the comparison chart. Kind regards, Samuel On 4/05/2010, at 1:58 AM, Chris Rebert wrote: >> I appreciate that in general the Python syntax is good and concise. It is >> hard. Some teacher might want to consider these issues more carefully. Do >> you think I should change that spot to green? I don't have a problem with >> doing that, as long as it makes sense. > > Yes, I do think it ought to be green, though I admit I'm not unbiased > on this. I will point out that (1) does not seem related to > "simplicity and conciseness", which is what that row in the comparison > claims to be about. > >> With regards to Perl, yes, this is probably something I need to investigate >> further. It is not always easy to do a comparison of this nature. From my >> experience, Perl generally seems to have a robust object model that is >> consistently implemented (even if the syntax is pretty wonky at times). >> However, in a sense, it is no better or worse than Python implementation... >> so why is it green dot? Do you think I should change Perl to orange or >> Python to green. > > I'm unsure, but in either case, at least based on my limited knowledge > of Perl 5, it again seems rather strange for Python & Perl to not be > rated approximately the same in this area (if anything, I'd think Perl > might be slightly worse off due to its syntax; but again, I'm not > unbiased and my Perl knowledge is limited). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list