What Python looks like
Larry Bates
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Mon Aug 4 15:38:01 EDT 2008
iu2 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a little bit strange post, but I'm curious...
>
> I learned Python from its tutorial step by step, and practicing
> writing small scripts.
> I haven't seen a Python program before knowing Python.
>
> I'm curious, what did Python code look like to those of you who have
> seen a bunch of Python code for the first time before knowing Python?
>
> (I can tell, for example, that seeing perl for the first time looked
> like C with many $$$, I could see "if" and "for" and "while" but they
> were meaningless. Or Lisp for the first time looked like many words,
> no operators, how could that make a program???)
>
> Thanks
Python looked like pseudo-code that people would write before actually coding.
I've always thought that Python was "Pseudo-code that runs".
-Larry
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