Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.tele2net.at!news.panservice.it!feed.xsnews.nl!border01.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder04.ams.xsnews.nl!abp002.ams.xsnews.nl!frontend-F10-10.ams.news.kpn.nl From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Useful module to be written by a newbie Organization: Decebal Computing References: <87y4lbasvf.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87pp6mc100.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87h9rybr0w.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <00l02cx1i1.ln2@news.c0t0d0s0.de> X-Face: "(y8cC@tg_12{">GF'UXTW]FHI2wMiZNrnf'1EFQ&O#$m:f#O7+7}kR,v+Pti8=Vi/Z"g^?b"E X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Date: Sat, 09 May 2015 10:28:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8xexihb.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3ONwemlxOoezhCfyXs8HSFU3KDI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 36 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.207.62.244 X-Trace: 1431161106 news.kpn.nl 21104 81.207.62.244@kpn/81.207.62.244:37204 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:90220 Op Saturday 9 May 2015 08:10 CEST schreef Michael Welle: > Cecil Westerhof writes: > >> Op Wednesday 29 Apr 2015 21:03 CEST schreef Peter Otten: >> >>>>> Realistically a Python coder with a little experience will have >>>>> a glance at your code and run away. >>>> >>>> Oops, that is not nice to hear. :'-( >>> >>> Sorry, I did not mean to discourage you or insult you, I just >>> wanted to make it clear that your code is not there yet. >> >> You did not. Of-course it is not nice to hear, but if it is true, >> it is very useful. If there is a lot to be desired, then it is good >> when someone point this out. >> >> >>>> But can you enlighten me? Then I can learn from it. > learning a new language looks like an easy job, in most cases. All > the language's keywords and stuff, you can shuffle that into your > head in a weekend or so. But what it makes it a hard task is all the > idioms. It takes a long time to learn them. I like your approach of > hacking random algorithms, like happynumbers and friends, (everyone > does it to learn a new language I think) and show them for criticism > (not everyone does that). Well in my experience the fastest way to learn something is let people ‘burn you down’. Of-course you need to be able to take it. Also important: “C'est le ton qui fait la musique”. But no problems here. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof