Hallöchen!
Matthew Woodcraft writes:
> [...]
>
> At one time, Guido was very keen on the idea of Python as a
> language to introduce non-programmers to (under the 'Computer
> Programming for Everybody' slogan).
>
> I think it's rather a shame that this has more-or-less fallen by
> the wayside. There are lots of people out there producing buggy
> spreadsheets to do things that would be easier to do in a
> programming language.
I don't think so. It's still reasonably simple to write short
Python programs for e.g. the analysis of measurement results. But
people simply don't trust cheap non-point'n'click programs which
don't occupy two shelves in the bookstore.
Tschö,
Torsten.
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