Here is another feedback about Zed's article: https://eev.ee/blog/2016/11/23/a-rebuttal-for-python-3/
Regards, Thierry 2016-11-24 20:54 GMT+01:00 Mike Orr <[email protected]>: > It also reminds me of the switch to the metric system. The reason > Americans are adverse to it is that it was taught in school in the > 1970s as a bunch of obscure conversion functions. A meter is 39 > inches. A kilometer is 5/6 of a mile. A centimeter is tiny compared to > an inch; look at a ruler. A liter is a bit more than a quart. To > convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius, divide by 2 and add 32. People's > math homework was all these tedious conversions. > > But that's not how people in metric countries use the metric system. > They just move the decimal point left and right and change the unit. > They follow metric recipes. They compare 500 milliliters to 1 liter. > They have an intuitive feeling of how warm 20 degrees Celsius is, and > how warm 30 degrees Celsius is. The only time they use the tedious > conversions is when they have to compare it to something in English > units, which is rare. Even Americans, if they start in metric such as > the secondary number on a food can, or the other side of the ruler, or > their speedometer when they're in Canada, can easily compare it to > other metric units and remain in metric for the entire situation. And > they do sometimes use millimeters rather than inches because it's a > conveniently short unit for short or precise things. > > So it's like going from Python 2 to 3. Converting programs is hard, > but after that it's easy, and you get access to more features > (analogous to just moving the decimal point left and right, or having > freezing and boiling at 0 and 100). Once you are in 3, you rarely have > to deal with 2, unless you encounter an old program or library. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/pylons-discuss/CAH9f%3Dura5LPgW9Xp9MM_UzT8G6pZqQyEohk7P% > 2B28wwcEtRUJ4Q%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pylons-discuss/CAPX_VWB270G-wV7D6e8gi6uMewL8Yasg9vWRQ9CPDM%2BSt4RRsA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
