Suffering For Your Art

Steve Purcell stephen_purcell at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 23 09:15:50 EST 2001


Ben wrote:
> Is it just me or is there a lot of animosity towards Python as a serious
> programming language ... it seems to be an old school attitude that  if you
> do not have to struggle and suffer with an idiosyncratic, unintuitive
> programming syntax then it cannot possibly be a powerful language.

Many of those on this list have been through the wringer of those
idiosyncratic languages and have attained Pythonic enlightenment.

We should be patient with those that have yet to transcend the suffering
of \$, -> and BEGIN/END.

-Steve

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