[Edu-sig] Edu-sig Digest, Vol 22, Issue 26

[Arthur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edu-sig-bounces at python.org [mailto:edu-sig-bounces at python.org] On
> Behalf Of André Roberge
> 
> I interpret "Python looks easy" to mean that
> Python allows one to focus on the task at hand,
> with a gentler learning curve.
> 
> Easier to learn often translates with
> more ambitious projects being attempted ... and completed!

That sounds right.  

But -

In the last three months, as the fates have it, I have written more VB code
than Python code. One can accuse VB of a lot of things - being (relatively)
hard to learn I don't think is legitimately one of them.  

But I don't even include VB as a language I know.  Essentially, mentally, I
am solving the problem at hand in Python and then figuring out how to
express the solution in VB.

And I am working in VB in the most sophisticated of development
environments, and with access to the most complete and wide-ranging
libraries. I got tool tips up the kazoo, it completes my words, it's all
there, it's efficiency personified, it's heaven on earth - except that I
won't go near it unless you pay me, and I can't think of a single
interesting thing to do with it all.

Python and a text editor, and my imagination starts to come alive.

I don’t know why, really. I do know I'm a fairly mainstream fellow,
all-in-all.  I'm not looking to beat a trail off the beaten track, for its
own sake - I don't believe.  

What I *can* do is respect my experience  - and since it has been loads of
fun, try to find clues on how to make it reproducible.

But I don't find "easy" a clue to anything. 

Art

 




> 
> It worked for me :-)
> 
> André
> 
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