Terry Reedy wrote:
Rui Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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| Recently I woke up inclined to take up the task of learning another
| programming language. I've already dipped my toes in Perl (I've read
online
| tutorials and wrote a couple of irrelevant pet
After reading all replies I've decided to keep the subscription to this
group, crank up the tutorials and start getting my head around Python.
Thanks for all the helpful replies. Kudos, everyone!
Rui Maciel
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On Mar 31, 5:40 pm, Rui Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW
On Mar 31, 1:36 pm, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Don't be scared by the backwards incompatible tag - it's the way to get
rid of nasty things that could not be dropped otherwise.
I would consider breaking production code to be nasty as well.
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En Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:57:55 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
On Mar 31, 1:36 pm, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Don't be scared by the backwards incompatible tag - it's the way to
get
rid of nasty things that could not be dropped otherwise.
I would consider breaking
On Apr 1, 12:47 pm, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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En Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:57:55 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
On Mar 31, 1:36 pm, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Don't be scared by the backwards incompatible tag - it's the way to
get
rid of nasty things
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 1, 12:47 pm, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
En Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:57:55 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
On Mar 31, 1:36 pm, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Don't be scared by the
On Apr 1, 2:11 pm, Eduardo O. Padoan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 1, 12:47 pm, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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En Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:57:55 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
On Mar 31, 1:36 pm, Gabriel
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please explain how the existence of Python 3.0 would break your
production
code.
The existence of battery acid won't hurt me either, unless I come into
contact with it. If one eventually upgrades to 3.0 -- which
Backward compatibility is important. C++ could break all ties with
C
to clean up as well, but it would be a braindead move that would
break existing code bases upon upgrade.
C++ is not C. No one upgrades from C to C++.
You misunderstand. C++ has a lot of warts to maintain
On Apr 1, 2:42 pm, Eduardo O. Padoan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You misunderstand. C++ has a lot of warts to maintain backwards
compatibility with C. The standards committee could eliminate these
warts to make the language
On Mar 31, 11:40 am, Rui Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recently I woke up inclined to take up the task of learning another
programming language. I've already dipped my toes in Perl (I've read online
tutorials and wrote a couple of irrelevant pet projects) but, as the
computers at my
En Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:57:21 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
On Apr 1, 12:47 pm, Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Please explain how the existence of Python 3.0 would break your
production
code.
The existence of battery acid won't hurt me either, unless I come into
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 1, 2:42 pm, Eduardo O. Padoan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 4:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You misunderstand. C++ has a lot of warts to maintain backwards
compatibility with C. The standards committee could eliminate these
warts to
Recently I woke up inclined to take up the task of learning another
programming language. I've already dipped my toes in Perl (I've read online
tutorials and wrote a couple of irrelevant pet projects) but, as the
computers at my workplace only sport the python interpreter, it probably
means that
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Subject: Is this a good time to start learning python?
Recently I woke up inclined to take up the task of learning
En Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:40:40 -0300, Rui Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
escribió:
Recently I woke up inclined to take up the task of learning another
programming language. I've already dipped my toes in Perl (I've read
online
tutorials and wrote a couple of irrelevant pet projects) but, as the
Rui Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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| Recently I woke up inclined to take up the task of learning another
| programming language. I've already dipped my toes in Perl (I've read
online
| tutorials and wrote a couple of irrelevant pet projects) but, as the
|
On Mar 31, 5:40 pm, Rui Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
So far the decision seems to be a no brainer. Yet, Python 3000 will arrive
in a few months. As it isn't backwards compatible with today's Python,
there is the risk that no matter what I learn until then, I will end up
having to
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