> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of André Roberge > > I interpret "Python looks easy" to mean that > Python allows one to focus on the task at hand, > with a gentler learning curve. > > Easier to learn often translates with > more ambitious projects being attempted ... and completed!
That sounds right. But - In the last three months, as the fates have it, I have written more VB code than Python code. One can accuse VB of a lot of things - being (relatively) hard to learn I don't think is legitimately one of them. But I don't even include VB as a language I know. Essentially, mentally, I am solving the problem at hand in Python and then figuring out how to express the solution in VB. And I am working in VB in the most sophisticated of development environments, and with access to the most complete and wide-ranging libraries. I got tool tips up the kazoo, it completes my words, it's all there, it's efficiency personified, it's heaven on earth - except that I won't go near it unless you pay me, and I can't think of a single interesting thing to do with it all. Python and a text editor, and my imagination starts to come alive. I don’t know why, really. I do know I'm a fairly mainstream fellow, all-in-all. I'm not looking to beat a trail off the beaten track, for its own sake - I don't believe. What I *can* do is respect my experience - and since it has been loads of fun, try to find clues on how to make it reproducible. But I don't find "easy" a clue to anything. Art > > It worked for me :-) > > André > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > Edu-sig@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
