Suffering For Your Art

[Dethe Elza]

But just think, if computer science was taught with python, the 4-year
curriculum would only take one semester, then all the students would drop
out to start writing code and making money.  C++ was designed to make things
hard to learn to keep comp sci instructors gainfully employed and off the
streets.

--Dethe

"Ben" <bencr at bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> # Just A Quick Observation
>
> Is it just me or is there a lot of animosity towards Python as a serious
> programming language ... it seems to be an old school attitude that  if
you
> do not have to struggle and suffer with an idiosyncratic, unintuitive
> programming syntax then it cannot possibly be a powerful language. All
these
> ascetics who would like to see everyone go back to the 'halcyon days' of
> assembly ... IMHO I think Python is a marvellously eloquant and beautiful
> language because it does not get in the road of programming. It pisses me
> off if I have to consult a tome of a help file/manual to find some obscure
> reference to do something that should have been quite simple ...
>
> # Would Anyone Like To Comment?
>
>