[Novalug] Why Python
William Sutton
william@trilug.org
Wed Jul 24 10:38:08 EDT 2013
having talked to mst on #perl... LOL :-)
William Sutton
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, shawn wilson wrote:
> Probably mst because he needed something to bitch about :P
>
> (this one might come back to bite me)
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:32 AM, William Sutton <william@trilug.org> wrote:
>> 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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