[Pythonmac-SIG] talking points, Pythonismus

[Charles Hartman]

I've been campaigning with the main teacher of programming on my  
campus -- from my thoroughly non-leveraged position as prof of  
English -- to consider switching from Java to Python, for all the  
reasons which will be obvious to everybody here. (The existence of  
"wxPython in Action" is the decisive event for me.) I recently got a  
thoughtful reply from him which included this paragraph:

> Actually, I am using Matlab, which is dynamically typed as well, in  
> some of my courses and I know it works well until types become  
> important. In image processing, for example, they easily mistake  
> the 'byte' data types for doubles which are the default. Ease of  
> use leads to overconfidence in this case. Sometimes they claim that  
> the program (the interpreter) isn't working right.

I wonder if anybody has any suggestions about useful answers to this.

Charles


Charles Hartman
Professor of English, Poet in Residence
Connecticut College
charles.hartman at conncoll.edu
*the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs.htm


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