Philip Semanchuk wrote:
I think Python does lots of beneficial hand-holding. Garbage collection
> is a good example. $DIETY knows, people have been struggling with manual > memory management in C and its ilk for a long time. Even though there > are good tools to help, memory leaks still happen. Python increases our > productivity by allowing us to forget about manual memory management > altogether. I can do it with tools like valgrind, but Python's makes > the point moot. Is that hand-holding? If so, I'm all for it.
Good point. There is an important difference, however, between offering warnings to newbie programmers (which is how this thread started), and memory management.
~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
