[Chicago] Randomo vs. Quorum vs. Perl (how would Python do?)

[Clyde Forrester]

Mike Stringer wrote:
> Many of you may find this article interesting: http://bit.ly/A2yqJA. It 
> is summarizing an article by researchers from Southern Illinois 
> University. They empirically study how easy it is for novices to learn 
> programming languages, and they show that novice Perl users were unable 
> to write programs more accurately than those using a language designed 
> by chance.
> 
> I wonder how Python would fare?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike

It sure came off as a fluff article.

They took a C-style construct, explained that it was in Java, blamed it 
on Perl, and speculated on what Python would do, but didn't follow through.

I just did a bunch of compound loops in Perl, Python, and Ruby. None of 
them were the C-style loops.

Clyde