[Python-ideas] A Continuations Compromise in Python

[Aahz]

On Sat, May 02, 2009, Gerald Britton wrote:
>
> First off, I think that you misrepresent Python by your
> characterization of it as a teaching language.  To be sure, many CS
> programs _do_ teach Python as part of their curricula and use it to
> teach core topics.  But Python is much more than that -- it is a
> serious language for serious applications.  (If you're not sure about
> this, just ask Google, which has built large parts of its
> infrastructure on Python).

I'm reasonaly sure John Graham had no intention of characterizing Python
as "only" a teaching language; it surely is the case that Python *is*
intended as a teaching language:

http://www.python.org/doc/essays/cp4e.html
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