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-A ProgrammingLanguage.
+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
.
-Python
is "the other scripting
language"
. It is more elegant
and better suited to larger projects than its sibling
[Perl
].
+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
.
-It is rather unusual in that indentation (leading whitespace) is used for
syntactical scoping (ie matters)
. (Which contributes the making
it easier
to read than Perl,
not that you
have to work hard to make something easier to read than
Perl.)
+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]
.
-Check it out at
http://www.python
.org and
also the Python Wiki
http://www.python
.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin
/.
+ Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not contrue that as progress.
+ %%% --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])
-The import script for the wiki was written in python, have a look (at my appauling code)
: http://coders
.meta.net
.nz
/conv
.py
+See also
:
+* [Python homepage |
http://www
.python
.org]
+* [Python Wiki | http:
//www
.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/]
-''Note also his "appauling" spelling! ;)
-- GreigMcGill''
+----
-''Dammit
, Greig! I'm
a programming, not a dictionary -- PerryLorier''
+The import script for the wiki was written in [Python]
, [have
a look at my appauling code | http://coders.meta.net.nz/conv.py].
-''
Was that irony? ;) -- GreigMcGill''
+ Note also his "appauling" spelling! ;) -- GreigMcGill
+
+ Dammit, Greig! I
'm a programming, not a dictionary -- PerryLorier
+
+
Was that irony? ;) -- GreigMcGill
-----
-CategoryProgrammingLanguages
+CategoryProgrammingLanguages, CategoryVeryHighLevelProgrammingLanguages
