On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:26 PM, kirby urner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<< SNIP >> > sociality.tv might be going with ML (?), plus Ruby is strong with some > of my Saturday Academy geeks, but I'm not too worried about the fate > of our snake, even though Nat poked fun at its cryptic error messages > (again, Guido never claimed 8 year olds were his target audience when > inventing this creature). Should have done some more homework, looks like sociality.tv is set to expire August 8. Here's a more up to date web address: http://tizard.stanford.edu/groups/sociality/ Related: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kindergarten_Calculus http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=8142 > Per a conversation with Steve Holden, I go "everything is a snake in > Python" in my intro, because I use "snake" to mean "generic object" -- > because of all the __ribs__ (special names). Per rms, hackers like > these kinds of jokes, even if they're not recursive in nature (not > saying this one isn't -- kinda like the joke in 'Cars' (everything is > a car in 'Cars', even the bugs)). > Also: """ Leveraging experience with animals is another way to go (it's not either/or). Because every object has a __rib__ cage (inheriting from object), we might say "everything is a snake" in Python (meaning an object with __ribs__). Some snakes quack like ducks though. """ http://www.nabble.com/Python-for-Beginners-p17395508.html > Kirby > > ** Bernie Gunn, geochemist par excelance: > http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2004/12/view-from-middle-earth.html > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
