[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > [...] >> >> Seriously, PostScript is a lot more fun to learn than Forth, and more >> directly useful. Since the rewards are so immediate, a kid's attention >> could be gained and kept pretty easily. > > PostScript is easy, but I'm afraid some technical details could get in > the way of enjoyable exploration, e.g. font types or scaling. > PostScript is also a single purpose language: it can print static > graphics and with a slightly more complex setup it can display static > graphics on the screen, period. No interactivity, no files, no network, > no general computation or data structures.
PostScript is _not_ limited to static stuff, and it _does_ support interactivity. See eg. http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~wagner/index_files/aaa.html Of course, this is just academic fun(?). PostScript is mostly used for printers, and as for yet, quite few papers support animated graphics :-> And yes, I also encourage to try Python. > List comprehensions, however, *are* the basic control flow; loops are > much more verbose and they should be used only when necessary. Hm. My experience is that people find loops easier to understand - varies somewhat, though. For some, 'more verbose' is 'more easy to understand'. -- # Edvard Majakari Software Engineer # PGP PUBLIC KEY available Soli Deo Gloria! $_ = '456476617264204d616a616b6172692c20612043687269737469616e20'; print join('',map{chr hex}(split/(\w{2})/)),uc substr(crypt(60281449,'es'),2,4),"\n"; -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
