Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: John Bokma Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development? Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 07:01:07 -0500 Organization: Castle Amber Lines: 34 Message-ID: <87vcwzyoos.fsf@castleamber.com> References: <80d59383-36a3-4744-85c4-1a0577f1d3a6@dr5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <9CDC4B2CD1F445E994119A50F65155DF@teddy> <12225671E9654FECB49613D915FAEC19@teddy> <21A740B7AC6644248476DFADDF726C73@octavian> <629DAC3611EA49B0A36BCF70151CDE2F@octavian> <87sjs44qyk.fsf@castleamber.com> <87zkmcujl4.fsf@castleamber.com> <20110524133902.b5ad22b1.darcy@druid.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: individual.net AqLp/Mebd3NLHwv1cYpGKwtJQAy9EAFZ+jDBWtYBBJhDcC7swa Cancel-Lock: sha1:IS8nodeh2/mKWTM7g8rjJrWK+yw= sha1:m3QSjkRCdw9SvKF/uTvE3QtLIII= X-Url: http://johnbokma.com/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:6226 Thorsten Kampe writes: > * Chris Angelico (Wed, 25 May 2011 08:01:38 +1000) >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:39 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: >> > One of my favorite quotes (not sure if it was about Perl or APL) is > "I >> > refuse to use a programming language where the proponents of it stick >> > snippets under each other's nose and say 'I bet you can't guess what >> > this does.'" >> >> Yes, I believe that was Perl. And an amusing quote. But most of the >> point of it comes from the fact that Perl uses punctuation for most of >> its keywords, whereas (say) Python uses English words; it's a lot more >> fun to crunch something down when you can use $| and friends than when >> you have to put "x and y", complete with spaces, for a simple boolean. >> But that says nothing about which language is actually better for >> working with... [...] > > It does say something about readibility. And yes, "readability counts". > And yes, readability says a lot about how good a language is for reading > and working with. To people used to the latin alphabet languages using a different script are unreadable. So readability has a lot to do with what one is used to. Like I already stated before: if Python is really so much better than Python readability wise, why do I have such a hard time dropping Perl and moving on? -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Perl Consultancy: http://castleamber.com/ Perl for books: http://johnbokma.com/perl/help-in-exchange-for-books.html