[Tutor] beginning to code
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Sep 17 20:12:11 EDT 2017
On 9/17/2017 4:39 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
> My point is
> that Python source code was meant to be "executable pseudo
> code" (Python devs' words not mine!),
The coinage 'Executable pseudocode' was my description of Python on
comp.lang.python, mirrored to this list, in April 1997, long before
I became a Python (core) dev. Guido did say things like 'human
readable' before that. To the extent that my description implies a
higher standard, you cannot imput it to Guido ;-).
> and while regular expressions are meant to be cryptic,
> Python source code was not.
That I agree with.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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