<david.ernst@davidernst.net> wrote:
> Very quick replies to just the parts that seemed like they were
> expecting replies from me.
Ditto, and then some.
> Maybe I just don't know enough python people. :)
My boss is a pretty pythonic person.
Every once in a while he'll see something I'm doing, and point out
that there's a particular syntactic sugar to make that sort of thing
easier in Python, when I'm about ready to handle it.
Python's list comprehensions, for instance, are incredibly cool.
> Oh, I definitely discourage programming in English. :)
That sounds like an apt description of giving an assignment. Maybe I
don't have the right libraries or something, but it's really very
difficult to program a room full of high school students to do even
simple tasks.
> also occassionally I have reason to violate it. But more to the point
> it's like "Huh? Whitespace matters? How? How many whitespace rules
> are there? I don't want to learn whitespace rules. OH yeah, I don't
> have to because I don't use Python." Again, I'm not saying it's bad,
> and I'm sure if one day I actual have occassion to learn Python I'll
> end up saying "whatever, it's totally no big deal".
Not many, and they make sense.
More importantly, freedom from semi-colons and curly braces is totally worth it.
> David
Simón
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