[Edu-sig] Top 5 All Time Novice Obstacles => #3 Where am I ?

[Arthur]

Jason -

One other thing I think worth commenting on.

In looking at ActiveScript and Rebol, you are looking at projects of an
essentially different kind than Python.  As commercial products, they
maintain a consistency of look, feel, approach which can be comforting and
confidence inspiring.

Python is an open source project with many people with their own approach
and asthetic contributing to different aspects. Less "coherent" in some
senses.  I don't recall the details, but I think it is accurate to say that
pydoc was built outside of the mainstream of Python development, by a
volunteer developer. Guido made the decision to incorporate it into the
distribution, but I believe, let it stand pretty much pat. (Somehow I feel
he might correct me if I'm wrong)  So it has maybe someone else's precise
look and feel, rather than one uniformly "Pythonic" or "Guidoic".  Could
seem a little hodgepodge compared to a strictly commercial type product.
But in the end it all seems to hang together quite well. But takes some
getting used to, no doubt.

Not that I mean to insult you about not having worked alot with open source
type projects. But just don't know whether yu have made the connection here
to what might be bugging you.


Art