26 Jul
2001
26 Jul
'01
6:53 p.m.
We're not talking about third graders, we're talking about 7th graders and up - C programmers, C++, Java, even BASIC.
They "know" that 1/2==0, but that 1.0/2 == 1/2.0 == 0.5. This is because, mathematically, the numeric representation is really floor(1.0/2.0).
These are the people that will be programming Python, not english majors. English is not a programming language.
I want everybody to use python. Not just C programmers.