On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Dethe Elza wrote:
I agree with the first point -- we're not looking *that* broadly for a Python audience. But my main motive for working on this question is the hope that the second point will *not* be true. One characteristic of the Mac-user-just-coming-to-Python audience that I'm aiming to help, or entice, or at least not alienate, is unfamiliarity at the Terminal that may inclulde distaste and border on panic. Terminal is Unix. OS X is not, in a sense. Some people have come to Mac now that its OS is "really" Unix. A much larger number -- including, I believe, a fair number of potential Python programmers -- come to OS X from OS 9 or System 7 or 8 or Apple ][. I just don't believe it should be necessary for those people, at first, to take on even the beginnings of Unix in order to brave taking on Python. (We can sucker 'em in to the delights of the command line later on.) Charles |
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