[Novalug] Why Python

William Sutton william@trilug.org
Wed Jul 24 10:32:26 EDT 2013


who came up with that survey?  and why did they separate "Canada" from 
"North America"?

William Sutton

On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Zak Zebrowski wrote:

> Fwiw, check out this poll at yapc-na, (yet another perl
> conference): http://yapc-surveys.org/html/yn2013-survey.html .  It shows the
> types of people using perl on a regular basis...
> 
> Sent from my iPhone...
> 
> On Jul 24, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Ed James <edward.james@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>       I've seen people "tricked" by C/C++ indentation that didn't have
>       enclosing
>       braces, but *assumed* that more lines were part of a block than
>       actually
>       were.  A simple example is:
>
>       if (foo == bar)
>          A = 1;
>          B = 2:
>
>       Just adds a bit more "interest" to those that code in multiple
>       languages.
>
>       I tried Python, but don't have any real reason to use it, so I
>       stick
>       with C++ for the most part.That said, I've got nothing against
>       Python, and I'm pretty much agnostic when it comes to writing
>       code for pay.  Whatever the Boss wants is fine with me.
>
>       One small point about picking up a new language is that often
>       a coder owns a goodly amount of code from an older (to him/her)
>       language that he/she can cut-and-paste from.  That's probably
>       not going to be the case with a new language, and just adds to
>       the adoption curve.
>
>       Ed James
>
>       On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Rob Sanders
>       <rarob@travelinglightfarm.net> wrote:
>             ...
>
>             My biggest single hurdle with python was
>             indentation.  Once I got over that (from a hardcore
>             c/c++ background) everything else has been
>             relatively straight forward.
>             ...
> 
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