Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

2014-01-28 Thread David Combs
In article 20131216213225.2006b30246e3a08ee241a...@gmx.net, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: And ever after that experience, I avoided all languages that were even remotely similar to C, such as C++, Java, C#, Javascript, PHP etc. I think that's disappointing, for two reasons.

Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language

2014-01-28 Thread David Combs
In article mailman.4286.1387291924.18130.python-l...@python.org, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote: On 2013-12-17, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: I would really like to see good quality statistics about bugs per program written in different languages. I expect

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-29 Thread David Combs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Waylen Gumbal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sherman Pendley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PLEASE DO NOT | :.:\:\:/:/:.: FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=: I don't think Xah is trolling here (contrary to his/her habit) but posing an interesting matter of

Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-29 Thread David Combs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Maas, http://tinyurl.com/uh3t [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] the importance of naming of functions. Lisp is *so* early a language (1960?), preceeded mainly only by Fortran (1957?)?, and for sure the far-and-away the

VERY SORRY FOR THAT CROSSPOST; Re: The Importance of Terminology's Quality

2008-05-29 Thread David Combs
(This one is also cross-posted, to apologize to one and all about my just-prior followup.) I stupidly didn't remember that whatever followup I made would also get crossposted until *after* I had kneejerked hit s (send) before I noticed the warning (Pnews?) on just how many groups it would be