On 11 May 2011 16:26:40 GMT, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: : > 1. My concern was not about clueless newbies. They need to : > learn. My concern is about experienced scientists and engineers who : > are simply new to python. : : Which makes them clueless newbies *about Python*. I don't care how : experienced they are in astrophysics or biology or calculating the : average airspeed of an unladen swallow.
Someone who knows how to program is never clueless starting a new language. Newbie, may be, but he knows most of the constructions and semantic principles to look for; most of it is learning the syntax. : Yeah, life is hard and then you die, and scientists don't even get paid : that much. So what? Do physicists write their scientific papers about : string theory with the thought "What if some Python programmer who knows : nothing about string theory is reading this? I better dumb it down." That depends on the purpose of that particular paper, but the real question is, who writes the software to test that string theory empirically? Please tell. -- :-- Hans Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
