This is all great stuff! Thanks to all who responded here or in email!
However so far this all goes to only half of the questions I am trying
to address.
I'd also like to consider the bad news. At least three important
projects that I know of have abandoned Python in favor of Java or
Squeak:
1)
In a message of Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:25:40 +0200, Laura Creighton writes:
>A first programming language should be interpreted not compiled. It
>should also not have type declarations.
>
>Laura
correction: it should not have type declarations, unless it is
Haskell, which is another pretty good f
A first programming language should be interpreted not compiled. It
should also not have type declarations.
Laura
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In a message of Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:47:31 CDT, "Michael Tobis" writes:
>I see that:
>
>"Ivan is a strong advocate of open source software and software libre.
>He thinks Python may well be the greatest thing since sliced bread."
>(http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ivan/)
>
>I agree about the sliced brea
On 3/27/07, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Tobis wrote:
> So when I see code that reads about as easily on a Python list, I think
> it might be time to tell people to step back, take a deep breath, and
> remember there's a reason they're using Python -- and it's not reducing
> th
Thanks. Kirby's is an interesting response with which I basically agree.
Those of us who learned programming when the model was close to the
machine model (Fortran, C) have had a hard time wrapping our heads
around objects.
A good friend whom I very much admire has argued (this was per-Python
so
Michael Tobis wrote:
> As penance I have reduced it from seven lines to six. This one is
> actually tested.
You know, when confronted with this type of little, one-off problems
before, I used to write Perl code like this:
for (1..5)[EMAIL PROTECTED] = sort split //,($_+(chomp($_=))*0);
$t=(@d%2)?
I wanted to thank Markus and Kirby for pointing out Scratch to the
list. After a little exposure to Lego Mindstorms, both my kids were
able to pick up scratch and start building with it. My ten-year-old
helps my 6-year-old with programming now %-)
I've had some fun with it as well, althoug
Oof.
(Thanks.) :-}
Proving once again that eyeballing the test is not running the test!
As penance I have reduced it from seven lines to six. This one is actually
tested.
import sys
concord = {}
for word in [token.lower() for token in open(sys.argv
[1],"r").read().split()]:
concord
> To further discussion on this question I have set up a blog. (I hate that
> blogs are in reverse chronological order; I posted the articles in the
> opposite order than the reading order so you can read from top to bottom!)
>
I'd rather post thoughts to edu-sig if you don't mind, as your
questio
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