Rhodri James wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:21:27 -0000, <ru...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> IIRC, Someone posted here that his experience was >> that 12-year old kids (presumably without programming >> experience) had no problem with Python and references >> when described as "names given to an object". (From >> memory, can't locate the post right now.) > > 'Twas I. It was a rebuttal to your point that Python's assignment, > parameter passing and data model is somehow inherently more difficult > to wrap your brain around than that of other languages. It isn't; if > anything it seems to be easier.
That was and is not my point. My point was that there seems to be an observably significant number of people who are surprised by the way Python assignment works. I hypothesized that this was due to their experience with other languages, *not* that Python is somehow "inherently more difficult to wrap your brain around", and that the response, "Python assignments are the same as in those other languages" is insufficient. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
