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On 05/03/2014 20:46, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
> I think the discussion spawned from the problem of teaching programming
> students the right idea of values and objects. A teacher would like to
> bring in advanced concepts last, but Python seems to force you to get
> them at the very beginning.
>

Nonsense, people starting out with Python have stated how easy it is to 
just start writing Python code.  This would obviously not be possible if 
advanced concepts had to be learned up front.

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

Mark Lawrence

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