Popular conceit about learning programming languages
Pascal Costanza
costanza at web.de
Fri Nov 22 13:02:06 EST 2002
Michele Simionato wrote:
> Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> wrote in message news:<arj3lf$ar1$1 at newsreader2.netcologne.de>...
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>>Could you try to describe what it means to you to think in Python? What
>>makes it different from thinking in other languages? (This is not a
>>rhetorical question!)
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> Sorry for my late reply, but I see than others have addressed your question
> better than I could have done myself. In short, you see that you start
> *thinking* in a given language when:
[several factors]
This is all clear to me, but I didn't want to know about this general
level. I would like to know more specifically what features make Python
special to you. As Kenny put it, in what regards is Pythonthink
different from Otherlangthink?
Pascal
P.S.: And please take all the time you need for answering this question. ;-)
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