for / while else doesn't make sense

[Rustom Mody]

On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 8:28:39 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Python ought to be the perfect language for seasoned experts. It doesn't
> need to be dumbed down for noobs.

There's a language you may have heard of that you'll LOVE -- C++
Or maybe Haskell

On a somewhat more serious note:
Speaking of Haskell there has recently been a spate of dissent in the Haskell
with people like Mark Lenctzer, Eric Meijer etc saying they are quitting Haskell
because its too hard to teach.
[These names in roughly python-equivalents are like say Raymond Hettinger and Nick Coghlan]

I'd say python has done an eminently decent job so far in being approachable
+powerful.
But of late its losing the edge in the noob-side at the cost of catering to
cognoscenti.

IMHO Pascal got things right (wrt pedagogy) that are wronger and wronger in the last 30 years; see

http://blog.languager.org/2015/06/functional-programming-moving-target.html

On a different note: MIT has replaced scheme by python.
Cause to celebrate??
Depends... If being able to do more with less understanding is good... well maybe