[Tutor] Losing theexpressivenessofC'sfor-statement?/RESENDwithexample

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Stephen McInerney wrote:
> Hi Alan,
[..]
> How can we address that reasonably and succinctly without polluting the doc 
> with language-migration-specific details, that is a worthy question... I 
> believe we can do a better job simply by grouping and highlighting related 
> alternative concepts like I listed above. 

I think such treatment of the various python constructs should be 
reserved for documents like say, "Python for C programmers"(which should 
also warn people IMHO about the inefficiency of translating C directly 
to Python). The official Python tutorial whose intent is to teach proper 
Python shouldn't encourage you to write C programs in Python. I don't 
think it should make any references to other languages since it has it's 
own idioms.

As far as I know, K&R doesn't make any references to other languages 
which might have been popular at the time C was being introduced (eg. 
"this statement is equivalent to the COBOL statement foo"). I think that 
was a good thing.


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~noufal