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From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject: Re: l = range(int(1E9))
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Op Friday 1 May 2015 15:25 CEST schreef Michael Torrie:

> On 04/30/2015 10:19 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>> I must also confess to being highly impressed, it's a breath of
>>> fresh air having an apprentice Pythonista who is looking at doing
>>> things the Pythonic way :)
>>
>> When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
>>
>> Besides: there probably is a reason for the Pythonic way.
>
> You maybe surprised, then, by how many people that stop by this list
> wanting to program Java, C# or C++ in Python and get frustrated and
> upset when the list tries to steer them in a Pythonic direction.
> Most of them leave upset and never return to the list or Python.

I am not really surprised. I know that this is how it often works. :-(
But I like to be different. :-D

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof