Jeffrey Schwab wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> No need for flames. I'll content myself with pointing out that most >> 1.5.2 programs will run unchanged in 2.5, so the backwards >> compatibility picture is very good. Nobody makes you use the new >> features! > > They do if you ever want to read their code. The point of view you've > just summarized is what causes languages to become write-only.
Sorry, that came out a lot ruder than I meant it. I've always heard that Python was extremely easy to learn. I'm still fairly new to the language, though (2.2), and I have not found it any easier to learn than Perl or Ruby. It's great that all these new features have been added, but if I want power at the expense of intuitive language constructs, I'll stick to C++. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
