Oct. 24, 2000
7:04 p.m.
Well, my students' resistance to novelty is low enough that they're willing to take a Python course :-). This comes up every time I teach; no idea whether it has any impact on the usability of completed applications, but I believe it makes people less likely to choose Tkinter when starting development.
Can you elaborate on the line of argument that you typically hear? What do you say to dispel it? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)