In article <roy-8d00e9.17341520122...@news.panix.com>, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >In article <hgll51$cv...@panix5.panix.com>, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) >wrote: >> >> -- >> Looking back over the years, after I learned Python I realized that I >> never really had enjoyed programming before. > >That's a sad commentary. Python is fun to use, but surely there are other >ways you can enjoy programming?
Not really. I've been programming more than thirty years, and the closest I came previously to enjoying programming was Turbo Pascal, and even that has too much tedium and lack of brain-fit. Before Turbo Pascal, there was BASIC on an HP-1000. Afterward came HP-41, Ada, FORTRAN, Paradox PAL, C, Perl, and there must be some others I'm forgetting. Thankfully, I didn't learn Java until after I'd been programming in Python for a while. (And arguably I still haven't learned Java despite writing a PGP encryption wrapper around BouncyCastle.) Programming is difficult to begin with, and everything other than Python just gets in my way. To be fair, my quote isn't entirely honest: I never called myself a programmer before I learned Python because I didn't really like it. It took Python to make me realize that programming *could* be fun, or at least not annoying enough to keep me from making a career of programming. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Looking back over the years, after I learned Python I realized that I never really had enjoyed programming before. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
