On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 8:48:13 PM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote: > On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 4:16:31 AM UTC-5, Rustom Mody wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 12:27:44 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > > And related to that (and one reason a pure functional language is good > > > > for > > > > pedagogy): NO PRINT statement > > > > It may seem trivial but beginning students have a real hard writing > > > > clean > > > > structured code. Tabooing prints helps get there faster > > > > And working in the interpreter makes a print-taboo a viable option > > > > > > I firmly disagree. > > > > Yes we know that! > > > > As it happens you also disagree with ACM's latest CS curriculum: > > I/O is an essential part of computing in the West. (I'll leave Symbolics out > of of that category.) It started with switches and lights, so what kind of > bullshit is saying that you should get rid of PRINT? ACM must have gotten > confused or steamrolled by one of its members.
In the West? WEST?? Did I hear that right? My profound genuflections to the Mark-modified Michaelson-Morley result. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
