iu2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm curious, what did Python code look like to those of you who have > seen a bunch of Python code for the first time before knowing Python?
To me it looked like the pseudo-code used for describing algorithms, allowing clear understanding and redesign of the algorithm before adding all the cruft "necessary" to make a real program from it. I was very impressed, therefore, that program code could be so clear and readable, and yet require so little computer-friendly cruft. > (I can tell, for example, that seeing perl for the first time looked > like C with many $$$, I could see "if" and "for" and "while" but they > were meaningless. Being already familiar with Bourne-style shell programs, Perl just looked to me like an even-more-baroque version of Bourne shell syntax. Not surprising, since that was one of its main inspirations. > Or Lisp for the first time looked like many words, no operators, how > could that make a program???) I had no referent with which to compare Lisp when I first saw it. I did wonder "if the program is so nicely indented anyway, why are all these parentheses necessary?" That was many years before I encountered Python :-) -- \ “I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at | `\ least ten years.” —Bill Gates, 1994 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
