[Tutor] beginning to code

bartc bc at freeuk.com
Thu Sep 21 07:52:32 EDT 2017


On 20/09/2017 02:31, Bill wrote:
> Rick Johnson wrote:
>> I think for most languages an intuitive syntax is not
>> important -- C is such a language, Lisp is such a language,
>> Perl is such a language, and there are many more -- but
>> for Python, intuitiveness is very important.
>>
> I guess it depends on what you mean by "important" ("important to the 
> compiler", is a legitimate concern, for instance). From an intuition 
> perspective, C++ allowing you to separate the interface of a class from 
> it's implementation, I would say that C++ has it all over Python from 
> the point of view of "intuitiveness".   It's much easier to tell what's 
> going on, at a glance, in a C++ program.

You're being serious, aren't you?

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bartc



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