[Pythonmac-SIG] talking points, Pythonismus

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On 18 Apr 2006, at 22:14, Christopher Barker wrote:

> 1) A lot of people can benefit from knowing how to do some programming
> that are not ever going to be computer scientists or professional
> programmers: Python gives them a very useful tool for a wide variety of
> programming needs, without the painful learning curve.
>
> 2) Even if someone is going to become a computer scientist or
> professional programmer, why do they need to learn all those painful
> details first? I think Python provides an excellent introduction to a
> lot of what programming is about, and it can be later supplemented with
> a course in Lisp, or C, C++ ,or even JAVA, later. Frankly, I wouldn't
> call anyone a "real" programmer that has only used one language. Any 
> one
> language.

which is why so many languages exist?  I've though for a while that 
it's possible to become 'over trained' on one language (borrowing the 
term from neural nets) which can make it difficult to see the benefits 
of different approaches.