P*rl in Latin, whither Python?

[Steve Lamb]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:19:46 -0500, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>I've had, let's see, a total of eleven programmers, several of them
>quite junior, learn Python over the last ten months.  In that time, not
>a single one of them took longer than one week to be agle to write
>something useful in the language.  

    Oh, I've already written something productive in Python.  Ported a dice
server from Perl to Python in about a week with some help from here on the
finer details.  I still dabble with it from time to time.  OTOH I also know
that if I get into Python coding I'll come back to it in 6 months and see
about a dozen ways to do things better.  For what I want to do at work I doubt
I'd be able to get to that level in under a year because I need to understand
the concept as well as implementation.


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