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| 8 | AristotlePagaltzis | 1 | A ProgrammingLanguage possibly best described as "the other scripting language". It forces cleaner style than its begrudged older brother [Perl] allows as the lowest common denominator. |
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| 3 | This is a good language to learn if you only program occasionally out of necessity. (E.g. if you are a WebMonkey who needs do odd things with text, [XML] and structured data every now and then.) Those who like it find [Python] code unusually easy to read, which is good if you are returning to a script you wrote 3 months ago; and it has a very complete standard library, so you don't have to start from scratch when working on common tasks. | ||
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| 5 | It is rather unusual in that indentation (leading whitespace on a line) is the only means of syntactical scoping. Not everyone appreciates this dictatorship, though it does force people to do what many seem not to have the discipline for in [Perl]. | ||
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| 10 | AristotlePagaltzis | 7 | Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of [Lisp] and [Fortran]. I do not contrue that as progress. |
| 8 | AristotlePagaltzis | 8 | %%% --LarryWall in [20040512161005.GB3902@wall.org | http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/17380] (also, see [20040512155636.GA3902@wall.org | http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/17379]) |
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| 10 | See also: | ||
| 10 | AristotlePagaltzis | 11 | * PythonNotes |
| 8 | AristotlePagaltzis | 12 | * [Python homepage | http://www.python.org] |
| 13 | * [Python Wiki | http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/] | ||
| 9 | MattBrown | 14 | |
| 8 | AristotlePagaltzis | 15 | ---- |
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| 17 | The import script for the wiki was written in [Python], [have a look at my appauling code | http://coders.meta.net.nz/conv.py]. | ||
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| 19 | Note also his "appauling" spelling! ;) -- GreigMcGill | ||
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| 21 | Dammit, Greig! I'm a programming, not a dictionary -- PerryLorier | ||
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| 23 | Was that irony? ;) -- GreigMcGill | ||
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| 25 | ----- | ||
| 26 | CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategoryVeryHighLevelProgrammingLanguages |
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