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Re: Use the Source Luke

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On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 21:17 -0800, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> My thesis is that we can do even better than that by adding
> direct links from the docs to the relevant code with nice
> syntax highlighting.

+1 - I think the source links are very useful (and thanks for pushing
them).


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)


Tim Wintle

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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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