On 12/05/2015 07:42, Rustom Mody wrote:
And related to that (and one reason a pure functional language is good for pedagogy): NO PRINT statement It may seem trivial but beginning students have a real hard writing clean structured code. Tabooing prints helps get there faster And working in the interpreter makes a print-taboo a viable option
If students can't be taught to distinguish print from other parts of the language they should get themselves onto a course teaching semi-skilled light bulb fitting.
-- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
