On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:19:43 -0700, sturlamolden wrote: >> More than one person here has >> observed that the time to learn to program Pythonically is inversely >> proportional to their experience in Java. > > I believe it is opposite. The longer the Java experience, the longer > it takes to program pythonically. The correlation is not inverse. In > particular, programmers accustomed to Java or C++ seem to use for- > loops awfully lot. And when they do, they always loop over a sequence > of integers, and use these as array indices.
It would be more accurate to say that of programmers who are *only* accustomed to Java or C++. I've been using C for 80-90% of my code for 25 years, and I wouldn't normally loop over the indices. But then the other 10-20% is Lisp, Tcl, Haskell, PostScript and, more recently, Python. OTOH, using a "for" loop when you could use a generator means less work when you need to make a minor change and a generator is no longer sufficient. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
