Arthur wrote:
Joshua Zucker wrote:
noticeable minus if in the early days of the course I had to talk about import, and dot notation, and so on ... to me it feels like being forced into a Java/OOPish mindset for how to structure a program, instead of being able to use functional programming or even just plain old C-like style. I think I'm only talking about maybe the first week of a course here, but still, that first week can do a lot to affect people's impressions of the language or even of programming as a whole.
Is it reasonable to expect Guido to design his 100 year language around a one week problem?
Art
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