[Tutor] Losing the expressivenessofC'sfor-statement?/RESENDwithexample

[Smith, Jeff]

That's a good point.  He keeps indicating that the tutorial should make
reference to C/C++/Java syntax specifically  because that's what the
rest of the known universe uses.  To carry your example one step
farther, it's like expecting a grade school Spanish text to have
pointers for English speakers because that's what the rest of the known
universe speaks.  Not only is the claim itself specious, but if the
target audience for the book is children learning Spanish, it would make
things worse, not better, by only managing to confuse them with
something they don't understand.  If that's the case, we should have
pointers in our English books in Mandarin, which, I believe, really is
the most spoken language. I'm sure his local school board would by his
argument :-)

Jeff

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expressivenessofC'sfor-statement?/RESENDwithexample

It seems this is a delightful exchange of rude threats and insults. ;-)

My question is: If you love C syntax so much, why don't you program in C
and leave us python people alone?

And also: It is not the responsibility of the docs to ease the way for C
programmers. That is what a specific tutorial is for. The docs are there
for the sole purpose of teaching you how to program in python. That is -
how you
*think* in python. The reason for loops are not the same in python as
they are in C is because they are not the same language. You are
supposed to write things differently in python than in C (because they
are different languages), and the fact that you don't seem capable of
doing that tells me that *you* sir are inferior, not python's for. I
certainly would not expect to go to Spain, tell them their language is
inferior, and then ask them to make concessions for English speakers.

JS 

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