On 2015-01-17 02:03, Chris Angelico wrote: > Ideally, this should be something that can be demo'd quickly and > easily, and it should be impressive without going into great details > of "and see, this is how it works on the inside". So, how would you > brag about this language?
First, I agree with Andrew Berg's suggestion about the breadth of the stdlib. This always irks me when I have to return to the C/C++ world where there's no standard library for things like networking (and thus no stock libraries for IMAP, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, etc or email-message handling), CSV processing, regular expressions, zip/tar/zlib files, SHA1/MD5, command-line option processing, threading, and no available-everywhere GUI. In the Java world, it feels like much of this is available, but that the glommed-on standards have multiple ways to do them (the old way(s) and the new/improved way). In PHP, well...that's just PHP (difficult-to-grok equality testing, inconsistent naming conventions and parameter ordering, lack of namespacing, easy-to-screw-up string interpolation, hacky OOP, etc). My fast-introduction go-to items are dir() and help() within the REPL interface. Nothing speeds up my development like being able to drop to a PDB prompt and inspect an object, ask what properties it supports, dump them, get help on them, etc. There's also the bigint stuff that means I don't have to worry about over/underflow errors. I'm sure there are more great ideas, but how you market might depend on your audience's background in programming (what language did they use and what pain-points did they experience). -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
