That's a good point. He keeps indicating that the tutorial should make reference to C/C++/Java syntax specifically because that's what the rest of the known universe uses. To carry your example one step farther, it's like expecting a grade school Spanish text to have pointers for English speakers because that's what the rest of the known universe speaks. Not only is the claim itself specious, but if the target audience for the book is children learning Spanish, it would make things worse, not better, by only managing to confuse them with something they don't understand. If that's the case, we should have pointers in our English books in Mandarin, which, I believe, really is the most spoken language. I'm sure his local school board would by his argument :-)
Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tiger12506 Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 5:02 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Losing the expressivenessofC'sfor-statement?/RESENDwithexample It seems this is a delightful exchange of rude threats and insults. ;-) My question is: If you love C syntax so much, why don't you program in C and leave us python people alone? And also: It is not the responsibility of the docs to ease the way for C programmers. That is what a specific tutorial is for. The docs are there for the sole purpose of teaching you how to program in python. That is - how you *think* in python. The reason for loops are not the same in python as they are in C is because they are not the same language. You are supposed to write things differently in python than in C (because they are different languages), and the fact that you don't seem capable of doing that tells me that *you* sir are inferior, not python's for. I certainly would not expect to go to Spain, tell them their language is inferior, and then ask them to make concessions for English speakers. JS _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor