Perl's documentation come of age

[Benji York]

Ed Hotchkiss wrote:
> I'm new to Python, not programming. I agree with the point regarding the 
> interpreter. 

I couldn't (with a quick skimming) find any references to the 
interpreter in the thread, so I'll guess the original assertion was 
something like "showing new-comers the interpreter is stupid and wastes 
their time".

> what is that? who uses that!? 

As a (more than) full time Python programmer, I can say that I use the 
interactive interpreter daily, and it contributes significantly to my 
prototyping of new code and reverse-engineering of existing code.  I 
could imagine that other people might not find it that useful, but the 
"who uses that!?" response is hard for me to understand.
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Benji York