[Edu-sig] simple guessing games

[Arthur]

Arthur wrote:

>a) One of design features of the programming language named after a 
>comedy troup, not a reptile, that it seems to me is of  fundamental 
>significance to tis success is its willingness to be outward facing, not 
>inward - its willingness to leverage the use of  generally accepted and 
>commonly used idioms, not be overly clever, i.e be a public language, 
>not a private language.
>  
>
FWIW, I also happen to think that the passion around the @decorator 
debate centered around this issue - many people feeling that the 
facility had the potential of redirecting Python inward.  I still cringe 
a bit when contemplating lots of @'s in the standard library of Python3000.

And FWIW, it seems that it seeems to me that sys.stdin.readline() is 
more public facing than is raw_input(), and I think my gut preference 
for it is on that basis.

All said at the risk of having my own private conversation.

Art