PyOpinion: Does Python Programming Marginalize You?

Bijan Parsia bparsia at email.unc.edu
Tue Jun 6 22:00:37 EDT 2000


Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> "Richard P. Muller" <rpm at wag.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> > Does Programming in Python Marginalize You?
> 
> I hope not.
>  
> > I love Python. Of the 10-15 programming languages I know, Python is
> > the only language which I actually look forward to using. 
> 
> Then you should learn Common Lisp, Haskell, ocaml, scheme and
> Smalltalk (? I don't know smalltalk, but it *looks* like fun).

Ooo, ooo. With a straight line like that, how can I keep silent?

(Duct tape, suppose. A lot. Though, I'm pretty good at chewing, so it
might not suffice.)

Smalltalk is a lot of fun. Observing someone going from Python (his
first language) to Smalltalk (his second), as I am observing, is
enlightening.

Coming soon (er...for some value of #soon which is near "sometime when I
get around to it"), a Smalltalk <--> Python snippet mapping. (Strange
brain glitch, I forgot what these are standardly called :))

-- 
Bijan Parsia
http://monkeyfist.com/
...among many things.



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