Python 3K or Python 2.9?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

TheFlyingDutchman a écrit :
>> <Ironic>
>>
>> Hi, I'm new to Python, I don't even fully know the language, never done
>> a full project in Python. What's more, probably I'll never will.
>> But that's not the point, the point is I want YOU people to modify the
>> language you know in and out, the program with which you've done many
>> systems, I want you to change it to suit my whims, so that I'll be
>> comfortable with the 3 ten liners I'll write.
>> TIA
>>
>> </Ironic>
> 
> <Zobionic>
> Hi, I've used Python and have fallen in love with it. I know exactly
> how Guido pronounces his name and since I saw him use the obtuse
> phrase syntactic sugar I try and work it into every discussion I have
> on Python syntax. I hate it when anyone offers criticism of Guido's
> language. I have a picture of Bruce Eckel with a red universal not
> sign over it on my wall and I throw my mechanical pencils at it every
> night. I am especially upset when someone talks bad about kluges like
> @staticmethod or FunctionName = staticmethod(FunctionName). Sure "def
> static" or "static def" would be so much cleaner, simpler and clearer
> but let's face it my fellow Pythonistas, this language may have
> started out based on what was easy for people to learn and use but
> we're in Nerdville now and clean and clear have become roadblocks! I
> have so much more respect for Perl and the way it developed now!
> </Zombionic>
> 

<AolStrikesBack>
Hi, I'm totally unable to understand the difference between higher order 
functions and language statements, nor why the first approach is way 
better than the second. I'm totally clueless about Python's object model 
despite many posts explaining it and pointing to relevant documentation. 
And, ho, yes, I don't even understand the expression "syntactic sugar", 
but I guess it must some dummy concept invented by the guy that wrote 
Python whatever his name might be.

So I insist on posting that all this is a kludge and that Python should 
be how I think it could be instead of trying to understand why it is the 
way it is and why people actually using it like the way it is.

But what, given that I'm an AOL user still thinking it's kewl to hide 
behind a pseudo, what else would you expect ?
</AolStrikesBack>