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Re: Use the Source Luke

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Tim Wintle wrote:

> However I think the biggest changes that have probably happened
> with python itself are:
> 
>  (1) More users for whom this is their first language.
>  (2) CS courses / training not teaching C (or pointer-based
>  languages). 
> 
> (2) is especially important IMO - under half of the python
> developers I have regularly worked with would feel comfortable
> reading C - so for the other half reading C source code probably
> isn't going to help them understand exactly what's going on
> (although in the long run it might help them a lot)

    	I'd just like to note that (2) applies to me in spades.  I'm not 
sure how many other people are in my position, but I use Python because 
I like how it works, and I do not want to use C because I find it 
insufferable.  I quite frequently look at the source of Python modules, 
although more often third-party modules than the standard lib, but if I 
have to look at the C source of something I basically stop and find 
another solution (possibly abandoning Python altogether for that usage).

    	I think, in general, the less anyone needs to know C even exists, 
the better for Python; likewise, the more that people have to mention 
the existence of C in a Python context, the worse for Python.  This may 
be a somewhat extreme viewpoint, but that's my position.

-- 
--OKB (not okblacke)
Brendan Barnwell
"Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go, instead, where there is
no path, and leave a trail."
	--author unknown

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Use the Source Luke Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-01-28 10:32 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-01-31 12:45 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-01-30 08:50 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-01-29 12:23 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-01-28 12:30 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-02-04 08:58 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-01-28 20:49 +0000
  Re: Use the Source Luke rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-01-31 22:38 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke David Boddie <david@boddie.org.uk> - 2011-01-30 14:19 +0100
  Re: Use the Source Luke Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola@gmail.com> - 2011-01-28 21:32 +0100
  Re: Use the Source Luke rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-01-30 08:42 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2011-01-31 14:07 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Tim Wintle <tim.wintle@teamrubber.com> - 2011-01-30 14:47 +0000
    Re: Use the Source Luke Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-01-31 12:35 -0800
      Re: Use the Source Luke Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-01-31 22:39 +0000
        Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-01-31 22:25 -0800
    Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-02-04 08:34 -0800
      Re: Use the Source Luke "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-02-04 19:11 +0000
        Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-02-04 21:20 -0800
    Re: Use the Source Luke "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-02-01 19:32 +0000
  Re: Use the Source Luke Jack Diederich <jackdied@gmail.com> - 2011-01-28 19:02 -0500
    Re: Use the Source Luke Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2011-02-05 12:46 +0100
    Re: Use the Source Luke Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-01-28 17:52 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-01-30 04:21 +0000
    Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-01-29 20:50 -0800
      Re: Use the Source Luke Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-01-30 08:53 +0000
  Re: Use the Source Luke Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> - 2011-01-29 21:17 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke TP <wingusr@gmail.com> - 2011-01-29 03:22 -0800
  Re: Use the Source Luke Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-01-29 10:10 +1100
    Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-01-29 19:59 -0800
    Re: Use the Source Luke rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-01-28 23:50 -0800
      Re: Use the Source Luke Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-01-30 08:22 +1100

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