On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Alex Kleider <aklei...@sonic.net> wrote:
> I appreciate your further elucidation, like your 'sledge hammer' metaphor and > thank you for the fragility warning. I expect within such a limited scope, > the dangers are not great. As someone who has been burned by this sort of thinking, please allow me to urge you: get into good habits now! At various points in my career when I've been learning a new language/technology/paradigm, I've decided to take shortcuts when writing my early "toy" programs. Unfortunately, in several cases, my "toy" programs ended up evolving into production code - shortcuts and all. In particular, I used to assume that my code - since it was either a learning exercise or a utility for myself alone - would only ever run in a single-user/single-tasking environment, and that when I wrote the "real" program later (in my copious free time) I would take the necessary precautions. Please, take a fool's advice: always assume that any program you write (more complex than "Hello world") will eventually be running in a busy environment, or that your user will manage to invoke five copies of it instead of one, or... _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
