Re: What is different with Python ? from my point of view, to be honest, nothing except mixing a well spiced soup of what was available within other programming languages.
I think, that what currently makes a real difference is not the language as such, but the people using it, posting here and writing new modules for it. I can imagine, that with becoming more popular and less supported by the core development team (following a special kind of programming philosophy called "Pythonic way" of approaching things) this can change, so I can only hope, that this won't happen. Don't ask _me_ what "Pythonic way" is - I think, you have to feel it yourself in order to understand it (I haven't yet seen any definition of it different from what is already also known from other programming languages, but maybe someone can provide it?). by the way: I see a contradiction between > - 1) I do not consider my intelligence/education above average and > - 5) I have developed for many years (>18) in many different environments, > languages, and O/S's (including realtime kernels) . because - 5) is the story many of programmers choosing Python as a tool or programming language of their choice went through and because of the fact you are here asking that question. Claudio "Philippe C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I apologize in advance for launching this post but I might get enlightment > somehow (PS: I am _very_ agnostic ;-). > > - 1) I do not consider my intelligence/education above average > - 2) I am very pragmatic > - 3) I usually move forward when I get the gut feeling I am correct > - 4) Most likely because of 1), I usually do not manage to fully explain 3) > when it comes true. > - 5) I have developed for many years (>18) in many different environments, > languages, and O/S's (including realtime kernels) . > > > Yet for the first time I get (most) of my questions answered by a language I > did not know 1 year ago. > > As I do try to understand concepts when I'm able to, I wish to try and find > out why Python seems different. > > Having followed this newsgroup for sometimes, I now have the gut feeling > (see 3)) other people have that feeling too. > > > Quid ? > > Regards, > > Philippe > > > > > > > > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
