Warning! Complaints coming. The good news is that 10-days of part-time Python coding has convinced me that I picked the right language. Now, observations.
First, it is absolutely horrible being a newbie. I'd forgot how bad it was. In addition to making a fool of yourself in public, you have to look up everything. I wanted to find a substring in a string. OK, Python's a serious computer language, so you know it's got a function to do this. But where? Look it up in the function reference. OK, where's the function reference? A line of code that you'd type in a second is a ten-minute search. Thank God for google. Second, would anyone mind if we tossed the semi-colon (which this newbie is forever forgetting)? I think the language is parsable without it. Third, could our classes be a little more selfless? Or a lot more selfless? The Stroustrup's idea of having the compiler, not the programmer, worry about the self pointer was an excellent decision. What was van Rossum thinking? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
