Alex Martelli wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>need to catch up quickly and master Python programming.How do you
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>>Mastery and quickly are opposing terms <G> Took me 15 years on a job
>>using FORTRAN 77 and I still wouldn't have called myself a master. (I'm
>>more of a JoAT)
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> My favorite "Stars!" PRT, mind you -- but when some language interests
> me enough, I do tend to "master" it... guess it's correlated with what
> Brooks saw as the ideal "language lawyer" in his "surgical team"
> approach, an intrinsic fascination with bunches of interconnected rules.
Python just isn't that complicated. The syntax is straightforward,
and the semantics are similar to most other dynamic object-oriented languages.
If you know Perl or Smalltalk or LISP or JavaScript, Python does about
what you'd expect.
Execution model: dynamic stack-type interpreter.
Memory model: reference counting with backup garbage collector.
Syntax: roughly C-like, with indentation for structure.
Typing model: dynamic only
Object model: class definitions with multiple inheritance.
Object structure: dictionary hash.
Exception model: explicit throw/try/catch
Theading model: multiprogramming in interpreter.
Safe memory model: Yes.
Closures: Yes.
Design by contract: No.
That's Python.
Biggest headache is finding out what doesn't work in the libraries.
John Nagle
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