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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Experiences/guidance on teaching Python as a first programming language
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:07:47 +0000
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On 17/12/2013 14:54, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <mailman.4286.1387291924.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>   Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-12-17, Steven D'Aprano
>> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>>> I would really like to see good quality statistics about bugs
>>> per program written in different languages. I expect that, for
>>> all we like to make fun of COBOL, it probably has few bugs per
>>> unit-of-useful-work-done than the equivalent written in C.
>
> Well, there was that little Y2K thing...
>

Design assumption made 30 to 40 years earlier "It'll only have to be in 
the field for six months" :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence