"Christopher J. Kucera" wrote:
>
> Tim Cook wrote:
> > Ok folks if you are like me and not only can't see the light but
> > can't even find the path to the light try these things:
> >
> > 1. Do the Python tutorial.
>
> Well, I hardly count as a newbie any more, but I'll just add this:
> Learning Python was the single most useful thing that helped me grok
> Zope. (Well, I digress. That plus figuring out acquisition.) It
> helped enormously, and despite what others have said, I think it
> sheds an amazing amount of light on How Things Work. :)
Agreed. I was a Java fan for a couple of years, so when I came to Zope
I had some preconceptions about what constitutes an "object". I
finally started to get the Zope and Python way of thinking when I
realized you could assign arbitrary properties to objects--and those
arbitrary properties are first class citizens in the language. For me,
Java restricted me to a mindset that required perfection, while Python
and Zope encouraged exploration without language-imposed limitations.
Python made coding fun again. :-)
Shane
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