Perhaps I am just dumb

[wooks]

Joshua Macy <l0819m0v0smfm001 at sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:<3C6596B6.20008 at sneakemail.com>...
> 
>    Yeah, I came to Python from Perl, too, and I used to think that all 
> that context sensitivity was the cat's pyjamas--but after the second 
> two-day debugging session caused by Perl guessing wrong (or my guessing 
> wrong about what Perl would guess), I wasn't so thrilled.  I actually 
> tried Python because I bought the O'Reilly book on Advanced Perl 
> Programming, and in the author's intro he said really nice things about 
> Python.  I went out and looked at Python online, then bought Programming 
> Python, and never looked back.  The Perl book is still sitting unread on 
> my shelf....
> 

I think you can get into trouble with any language. Seems I am coming
to Python with a motivation for prevention via the unit test tools
available whereas your motivation was cure.