Hello! On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 12:32:22AM -0700, John Schinnerer wrote:
Be honest now - how many of you saying "python is really easy to learn" or equivalent here recently would have said that when you first started using it?
ME!!! :) When I firts tried to learn a scripting language I started with Perl, of course - everyone used it, so why not me? It was a prob^H^H^H^Hnightmare from the very beginning. I could not write even a simple script. A friend of mine recommended to try Python. I installed it - and whoo!!! I started to write scripts the same day. Then I read docs... and since that times I use Python for all my programming needs - and there are many needs, I write command-line tools and filters, daemons and CGI-scripts... I changed job few times, and sometimes they tried to force me to use Perl, but I never managed to pick up Perl properly. And I certainly love Python, I love it more and more every new version. What is especially nice in the Python is Python community - all those mailing lists and newsgroups, the spirit of it. It is very helpful. We are fond of ourlanguage and tools, but we are not mad about it. Ask a perl programmer "what tools and languages can I use for task X besides Perl" and you'll have to find asbestos suite :) Ask python community - and they will give you all kind of answers, including "use Perl, Ruby, Lua..." Funny, right? Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.