[python-advocacy] lean py in 3 min

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Fri May 4 16:25:41 CEST 2007


Jeff Rush wrote:
> Carl Karsten wrote:
>> Like most mornings, had a thought but this one seemed worth posting.
> 
> You too, eh?
> 
>> What if one could could learn python with an insignificant impact on your daily 
>> activities?
> 
> Roy Smith wrote:
>> Other than us geeks, most people don't want to learn a language for the
>> sake of learning a language, they want to do it because it lets them get
>> something done.
> 
> True, but there may be something to Carl's idea with respect to existing
> Python programmers -improving- their skills.  For any language there is a wide
> spread between those those just know enough to get along, and those who have
> fully mastered the tool.

Now that you put it that way, I bet there is a huge pool of people that "know 
some python" but would be happy to bump it up to "know python" (which is what I 
was for 2 years.)

Carl K


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