Newbie response, was Re: Why is Python popular, while Lisp and Scheme aren't?

[Michael Mayhew]

Anton Vredegoor wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:55:27 -0800, Terry Hancock
> <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:
> 
> There's a lot of truth in this, as in the other part's of your -
> greatly appreciated - post, but I would like to add that it's often
> not possible for language designers to design a language that is not
> *considered* difficult and that is also not difficult in a more
> objective sense. We are living in a world where drinking brown colored
> and fizzling water with added sugar and artifical taste producing
> chemicals out of an aluminium (!) can is considered to be more natural
> than just drinking water.
> 
> Regards,
> 		Anton.


I concur with my esteemed colleague and I appreciate your post Mr. 
Hancock considering that I myself am an established newbie. (I can't 
seem to stay put either!) As a newbie to both Python and the open source
community that the patience of the user and, more importantly, 
forum-frequenting community has helped motivate me to learn and better 
hone my open source skills while simultaneously granting me that warm 
and gooey feeling one only gets from being a part of something special 
and larger than oneself. Anyway, I'm off to consume mass quantities of 
brown colored and fizzling water with added sugar and artificial taste 
so that I can stay up and code in Python! ;-)

Michael