On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Further, I will admit that I am not deeply > experienced in application or Internet programming
Would you listen to someone who is, by his own admission, not experienced as a surgeon, and tries to tell you that your liver and heart would be better placed the other way around? You may well have some insight that nobody else has yet seen, but you do yourself no service by trying to argue without first-hand experience, and lots of it. I'm not going to go to a LISP mailing list and try to tell them that functional programming is better done with some different syntax, because I am not an experienced LISPer. (Dabbled in Scheme, that's about as close as I get. And only dabbled. And only because GNU LilyPond uses it.) Things are the way they are because someone's spent decades working with them. Sure, not everything's perfect... but it takes someone with actual coding experience and expertise to point out improvements. Read the python-list and python-tutor archives and listen to people like Peter Otten and Steven D'Aprano, both of whom have been using the language for, uhh... 3.5 millenia, probably. (Me? I'm a n00b. Haven't seriously used Python for even a decade yet, though I think I met it in the late 90s or early 00s. Got my coding experience on other languages.) Listen to them when they explain to people why Python is how it is, and you'll gain a much greater comprehension of what actually works. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
