Computer Programming for Everybody Using Python

Posted by chrisd on Friday December 28, 2001 @03:50PM from the hope-you-like-whitespace dept.

Ursus Maximus writes "Python City, formerly known as the Python Liberation Front, is an attempt to further Guido van Rossum's dream of making computer programming accessible to any intelligent person. Featuring more than 20 detailed reviews of programming books,presented from a newbie's point of view, as well as links to 14 tutorials for learning Python, the site is a good starting point for folks interested in scripting. In addition, you will find an online interactive script for Choosing Your Own Programming Language, based on one's own preferences, expectations, and priorities, While the script is written in JavaScript, there are no apologies for any perceived bias towards Python ;-)))). You will also find several interesting and fun GPL'ed scripts such as askMerlin, an online, artificially intellgent Oracle; DecisionAnalysis, to help you make up your mind; and myGale, a webcrawler to routinely collect all online articles about Python. Add in a dash of Monty Python humor and newbies will find learning Python to be not only painless but indeed, fun!"

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A write-only language... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-01 08:19 · Score: 1, Insightful

After using Python for a while, it became eminently clear to me that it's essentially a write-only language. It's very easy to write programs in it because of its highly unsafe type system, etc. It's like human speech--highly ambiguous, which makes it very useful. The problem is, reading or analyzing programs in it for later maintenance is practically impossible. What type does this function return again? Oh, it depends? On what? Oh, the code? Grmph.