Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Wed, 09 Feb: > > > > all these fail the simple test of real-world usefulness. with Python > > you write psuedocode and it just RUNS. > > Many Pythoneers rave about how Python is runnable Pseudocode. However,
of course it's not. it's an interpreter, not a human language AI machine. However it has a very natural, sensible and consistant syntax. readable for beginners much LIKE pseudocode. > written a 200-lines Python program and had to make only 20 changes to get it > to compile and run. I told him they were 20 changes too many, because in > Pseudocode, he would need 0. show me even an experianced programmer that has 0 changes to make in 200 lines of C or Perl or even Logo before it runs the first time... If you write such an interpreter that will "do as they mean, not what they say", I promiss you will be a very wealthy man indeed. -- Tantric sex god Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
