En Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:40:40 -0300, Rui Maciel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> Recently I woke up inclined to take up the task of learning another > programming language. I've already dipped my toes in Perl (I've read > online > tutorials and wrote a couple of irrelevant pet projects) but, as the > computers at my workplace only sport the python interpreter, it probably > means that learning python will end up serving me better, at least in the > short run. Plus, you know how Perl goes. >So far the decision seems to be a no brainer. Yet, Python 3000 will > arrive > in a few months. As it isn't backwards compatible with today's Python, > there is the risk that no matter what I learn until then, I will end up > having to re-learn at least a considerable part of the language. To put > it > in other words, I fear that I will be wasting my time. Don't be scared by the "backwards incompatible" tag - it's the way to get rid of nasty things that could not be dropped otherwise. The basics of Python will continue to be the same, it's not a new, different language; learning Python 2.X isn't a waste of time. Python 3 won't be in widespread use until some (long?) time, and some people won't ever consider it until Python 3.1 arrives; so Python 2.X will continue being used for a long time. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
