Seebs wrote:
On 2010-11-05, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
The verifiable benefit for me is ease of use, ease of thought, ease of
typing... I realize these are not benefits for everyone, but they are
for some -- and I would venture a guess that the ease of thought benefit
is one of the primary reasons Python is popular. I am definitely one of
those that think indentation based structure is one of Python's best
features.
Could you explain more the "ease of thought" thing? I haven't yet noticed
it, but it might be something to look out for as I get more experienced.
Most if my programming experience is in FoxPro versions 2 and 6.
Control structures start with if, for, do case, do while, with,
procedure, and (I think) function. Control structures end with endif,
endfor, endcase, endwhile, endwith, endproc, and (I think) endfunc.
In Python, control structures start with if, for, while, try, def, and
class, and each one ends with a dedent.
This really comes into play when developing -- want to change that if to
a while? Go ahead! And no need to worry about tracking down the
closing endif to change it to endwhile, plus it's less clutter on the
screen.
I also really like the dynamic typing and not having to declare nor
pre-initialize variable names, as well as the lack of a true global
namespace.
All in all, I am able to think about the code and what I want to do, and
not think about the compiler/interpreter and keeping it happy.
Hope this helps.
~Ethan~
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