On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 12:17:26 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wednesday 17 February 2016 19:51, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > I hope someone can help me find this link: There is some record that Guido > > has said that python3 is probably a bit harder on noobs than python2. > > > > Does anyone know/have that link? > > > I can't say that I've seen it. I know that Raymond Hettinger is not too fond > of adding new syntactic features that add little in the way of power but > make the language harder to learn, but I don't recall anyone saying that it > is harder for newbies to get started with Python 3 than Python 2. > > There are more features in Python 3, so in that trivial sense of "more to > learn", I suppose that it is objectively correct that it is harder to learn > than Python 2. But I don't think the learning curve is any steeper. If > anything, the learning curve is ever-so-slightly less steep. > > Thanks Steven! So its Raymond Hettinger... Good enough
So now I find your earlier post: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2015-March/688387.html Obviously google was not obliging when I searched for Guido :-) BTW I have no tongs in this 2 vs 3 fire -- I'll leave that to Rick jmf and other noble gentry. My beef is somewhat different: viz that post 70s (Pascal) and 80s (scheme) programming pedagogy has deteriorated with general purpose languages replacing 'teaching-purpose language' for teaching. Which is about as intelligent as calling Martha[1] and Rose[2] both pianists [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLZLp6AcAi4 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bjKDJD-CLc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
