On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:22 PM, David Goldsmith <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have done a little >> perl, but it is really cryptic and I really enjoy how python "reads" if that >> makes any sense. > > It makes oodles and oodles of sense: as I understand it, > "readability," i.e., closeness-to-human language (or at least English) > has always been one of the foundational guiding principles underlying > the development of the Python language; it's certainly one of the > simplest things us partisans can point to in support of our > partisanship.
This is what most struck me about Python and one of the reasons why I started using it. I usually work in mixed-language environments, and I found that if you somebody a printout of Python code, they immediately understand what it's doing even if they don't know the language. It makes it easier to discuss ideas with them without them first having to learn Python. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]>
