Popular conceit about learning programming languages

[Kenny Tilton]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:03:48 +0100, Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> wrote:
>>Could you try to describe what it means to you to think in Python? What 
>>makes it different from thinking in other languages? (This is not a 
>>rhetorical question!)
>>
> 
> (Please pardon my jumping in with my view. I realize you didn't ask me ;-)

Nor did you answer him! :)

What is it about Pythonthink that is different from Otherlangthink?

I actually was wondering the same thing, because I do not see a lot 
different in Python from C other than very practical advantages, such as 
the indentation thang and GC. But I just am digging into Python, so 
whadoiknow?

My biggest mindfuck was learning Prolog. Declarative vs procedural. The 
prior champ was Logo, specifically learning to think recursion when I 
wanted to iterate. That sort of thing.


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