OO misconceptions

[Peter Hansen]

François Pinard wrote:
> [Steve Holden]
> > Suppose a Perl-to-Python conversion were possible (and I'm not suggesting
> > it isn't): would it be the kind of Python you'd want to use to teach the
> > language?
> 
> Surely not.  The idea is not to use it to teach Python, but to help quickly
> migrating already written Perl code to Python.

I imagine that the Python code produced by such a creature
would be more readable (to me!) than the original Perl code,
even if it were to produce code which was considered pretty 
hideous.

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