Comments requested: brief summary of Python
Josiah Carlson
jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu
Tue Feb 24 02:38:23 EST 2004
I'll send some real comments later (tomorrow or later this week).
I have the sense that your summary of Python, and the handful of other
languages I checked your descriptions of, are too elementary for an
experienced programmer to bother reading through. I got around two
paragraphs in, then started reading a paragraph per page until I was
done with the Python version, with the same read-through of C and Perl.
I also notice that your liberal use of semicolons (such as comments in C
in the last paragraph) are confusing:
"Comments are denoted by //; everything after that on a line is..."
- Josiah
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