On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Nathan Rice <nathan.alexander.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe in the idea of "things should be as simple as possible, but > not simpler". Programming as it currently exists is absolutely > convoluted. I am called on to help people learn to program from time > to time, and I can tell you that we still have a LONG way to go before > programming approaches a global optimum in either the semantic or > syntactic space.
Aside from messes of installing and setting up language interpreters/compilers, which are averted by simply having several pre-installed (I think my Linux boxes come with some Python 2 version, Perl, bash, and a few others), that isn't really the case. Starting a Python script is easy. Programming gets convoluted only when, and to the extent that, the task does. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
