On 2007-05-10, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Thu, 10 May 2007 18:21:42 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> These conversations are funny to me. I use Python every day and I >> have never actually thought about the implications of binding objects >> to names, or two names pointing to the same object. Problems of this >> sort just never come up in actual programming for me. It just works. >> >> Python was my virgin language, so maybe that just makes it natural to >> me, but it seems like people coming from other languages get hung up >> on testing out the differences and theories rather than just >> programming in it. Alas, maybe I have yet to get deep enough to run >> into these kinds of problems. > > Certainly, learning Python as a first language has some > advantages. But I think you'd feel a bit shocked if you had to > program in C++ someday; these rather innocent lines might not > do what you think: [...] > Simple things have so complex and ugly rules that... ugh, enough for now.
http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/An_Interview_with_Bjarne_Stroustrup.html Maybe BS thought he was joking, but IMO, it's true. "Stroustrup: Remember the length of the average-sized 'C' project? About 6 months. Not nearly long enough for a guy with a wife and kids to earn enough to have a decent standard of living. Take the same project, design it in C++ and what do you get? I'll tell you. One to two years." -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I know how to do at SPECIAL EFFECTS!! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
