[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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