What is different with Python ?

[Andrea Griffini]

On 17 Jun 2005 01:25:29 -0700, "Michele Simionato"
<michele.simionato at gmail.com> wrote:

>I don't think anything significant changed in the percentages.

Then why starting from

    print "Hello world"

that can't be explained (to say better it can't be
*really* understood) without introducing a huge
amount of magic and not from a simple 8 bit CPU
instead ? What are the pluses of the start-from-high-level
approach ? If one is to avoid bordeom I don't agree
as assembler is all but boring (when you start),
or at least this was what *I* experienced.

If it's about the time it will take to get a rotating
3d torus with live video on it I know for sure that most
of the programmers I know that started from high level
will probably *never* reach that point. Surely if
you start say from pull-down menus they'll be able to
do pull down menus. And IMO there are good chances
they'll stay there lifetime.

So is python the good first programming language ?
IMO not at all if you wanna become a programmer; it
hides too much and that hidden stuff will bite back
badly. Unless you know what is behind python it will
be almost impossible for you to remember and avoid
all the traps. Buf if you need to know what is behind
it then it's better to learn that stuff first, because
it's more concrete and simpler from a logical point
of view; the constructions are complex but (because)
the bricks are simpler.

But it probably all boils down to what is a programmer.

Is C++ a good first programming language ?

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :D

But apparently some guru I greatly respect thinks so
(I'm not kidding, http://www.spellen.org/youcandoit/).

Andrea