Thus spoke John Salerno (on 2006-06-15 15:50): > Did you have to learn it for a job?
No, I was just interested in things that are found interesting ;-) > Or did you just like what you saw and decided to learn it for fun? I read some remarks, from "both sides", on the feasibility of a programming language with 'invisible braces', so I thought 'give it a try'. > Also, how did you go about learning it? (i.e., like I described above, I > started with the main stuff then moved on to the different available > frameworks) Good question: I started with 'Myghty', this is, as you probably know, a (imho excellent) framework for developing web applications from components. 'Myghty' is a almost complete port of Perl's 'Mason' (which is what Amazon and others run at), - what I knew already smoehow. I also tried Pylons (base component of MVC system for web apps), but waved the flag after some time. > Was there any necessity in the specifics you learned, > or did you just dabble in something (e.g. wxPython) for fun? Another motivation was to find out something about the (nowadays) huge amount on SciPy related (software (http://www.scipy.org/Topical_Software). > Are there still some things you feel you need to learn or improve? I came all the way up from Basic/Fortran/x86-Assembler/C/C++ to todays 'lightweight languages' (Dr.Dobbs says they are) in the the Python/Perl/Ruby-Group. For my personal taste(!), Python is in the end 'to unspectacular', means: I didn't manage to learn to be really expressive in it - and to enjoy that ;-) But thats a matter of taste, these languages are like weapons (tools), that you use to express yourself on the battlefield of your tasks. And you _have_ to love and praise your sword, otherwise you won't be able to handle it appropriate - in your dreadful encounters ... > Additional comments/complains here: :) What I don't like in Python - easy things are too easy (even beginners can handle that, PIL etc.), - complicated things are too complicated (I had hard times to remember things), - invisible braces ;-) (just personal taste) - no integrated regex support (used to use re's very much, but milage my vary) Regards Mirco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
