Hi Danny,
I think that learning Python naturally leads to learning programming.
It's like learning to fly, you learn to fly in a Cessna or Piper
Cherokee. Simple, elegant, easy to operate. You can then focus on the
art of flying, not on how exactly you lower the flaps. Then, once
you're good at f
> The community is one of the things I particularly like about Python. I
> always hated asking a question in the Perl newsgroups; although you
> usually got an answer, you were almost certain to be told you're stupid
> for not already knowing it.
Hi Terry,
Just to act as Devil's advocate: the
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Paul Hartley wrote:
> Not only is the language amazing but the community is fantastic!!
The community is one of the things I particularly like about Python. I
always hated asking a question in the Perl newsgroups; although you
usually got an answer, you were almost certain to
Thank you for all your feedback on this -
powerpoint presentations and all!!
Not only is the language amazing but the community
is fantastic!!
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This is a great series of links. I found the following on Pythology too:
Python Spotting
http://pythonology.org/spotting
Best of luck.
Kent Johnson wrote:
Eric Raymond's "Why Python?" essay is a classic:
http://pythonology.org/success&story=esr
Bruce Eckel's "Why I love Python" presentation is her
> Any help I can get would be much appreciated - such as
> language comparisons, companies and systems that use python,
> debates about what python is good for
Most of that can be found under the General FAQ on
the python web site. And links to other similar material.
Alan G
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Eric Raymond's "Why Python?" essay is a classic:
http://pythonology.org/success&story=esr
Bruce Eckel's "Why I love Python" presentation is here:
http://64.78.49.204/pub/eckel/LovePython.zip
This page has lots of links you might be interested in:
http://www.ferg.org/python_presentations/index.html
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Paul Hartley wrote:
> When I was a member of the Forth Interest Group in the USA we learned
> that Forth was used on the buggy that went to mars, that it started life
> controlling huge radio telescopes which only had 4k (yes 4k) of memory
> for both language and application.
>
On Feb 1, 2005, at 16:35, Paul Hartley wrote:
When I was a member of the Forth Interest Group in the USA we learned
that Forth was used on the buggy that went to mars, that it started
life controlling huge radio telescopes which only had 4k (yes 4k) of
memory for both language and application.
I am trying to get Python established here in the
Philippines. Currently I am in charge of operations at a business based in
Manila and I have asked my IT staff to start using Python (with some
success).
A local university has now asked that I give a talk
to their IT people on Python - so
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