I can't think of an easier language to learn (I even teach >40 yo women now and then!) or a quicker language to code in. Once you're accustomed to it, the code just flows out
I suspect that you don't know Perl.
And how long would it take to learn Perl? Do you think say, 3 weeks of learning/working with Perl would get you as much coding productivity as 3 weeks of learning/working with Python? I think not. As for doing regular expressions with Python v. Perl: regex's are brain-twisters no matter what you're using, Perl, Python, sed, even awk.
And Perl borrows from BASIC (!), where a leading symbol tells you what kind of variable it is! Ever make the $var @var _var %var ~var error? (and I know some of them are not really Perl, but you get my point)
I was taking a Unix/C/C++ certification class at SFSU five years ago, and until then, I was deciding whether I should stay in public education or seriously persue a system administrator job. After that, the decision had been made for me. Jobs dried up, and the ones that remained were filled by people who had actually been administering systems and not taking a class in administrering systems. Fortunately, I don't mind remaining a high school math teacher, because I love children.
Another turn of the Great Wheel. Give something old a new name and it's brand new. It's been this way since MicroSoft invented computers in 1981.
Choke off Arizona's oxygen!
when I see it. Maybe Duke Nukem Forever and TF2 will come out before then.
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Bruce Schneier points out the problem of false positives in his "Secrets and Lies", and you'll get the same argument in any freshman statistics class: If the target population (of identified terrorists in the country, or people with AIDS) is extremely small, the probability of a false positive is greater than the probability of a true positive. If this system is correct 93% of the time, it's wrong 7% of the time. How many terrorists are there in the average metropolitan airport? I'd say zero (on average) How many people would be incorrectly identified? 7%. An airport with, say, 2000 people in it would have 140 of them misidentified. Even if the average airport had 20 terrorists, the false positives or misidentified would greatly outnumber them. And since the system is wrong 7% of the time, one or 2 of those 20 terrorists would be misidentified as not being a terrorist.
I teach CS in high school, and C++ and Java require a lot of handwaving and "Pay no attention to the #include (or public static void main() ) behind the curtain!" Write yourself a little "Hello, World" in C++, Java, and in Python. Which is shorter, meaning, which has fewer opportunities for simple errors? More comprehensible? Has less to explain about it?
Python is more versatile than Java. Want to explore the procedural world of hoary computer languages from the past? Python is procedural. Want to build a program using object oriented pardigms? Python is an OO language. Want to use bizarre (to me, at least) functional programming paradigms? Python supports that, too. A quick one-off script? Python. Fake-out simple GUIs? Python and Tkinter, or PyGTK, or PyQt (what an opportunity missed for QtPy!)or wxPython, or even Swing and AWT with Jython! CGI programming? Python. Even without a do...until() construct, you can program simply and easily, exploring all the important themes of a CS curriculum, with immediate feedback from the interpreter, without the compile step Java requires. Python runs on many typical desktop machines, even the modest P-150 laptop this humble teacher's salary affords (OK, it's really my wife who only lets me afford my modest laptop) Java doesn't run on it well, but Python runs fast enough on any machine my student's are likely to have at home, from the latest AlienWare to a donated Garage-a-tronic. Next year, I'll be using Python first, then migrate to Java to prepare for the AP exam, once they have their sea legs (Get it "C" legs?!? I slay me)
Re:Joe vs. vi vs. GUI based editors
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But vi is so much faster! Put you CTRL key between TAB and LShift, as God intended, and ESC is as quick as CTRL-[ ! A simple '' gets you back to where you started your search from! Set a bookmark with ma, and get to it with 'a ! MIRACULOUS! As for vi clones, vim sucks (If I wanted Emacs, I'd use Emacs). The 1T vi clone is Elvis.
There are so many causes because there is so much injustice.
No, because there is too much free time for people who have only learned to emote and not to think. The things the Green Party advocates are always the wrong things, but they feel right. Social justice always means taking from those who produce and giving it to those who don't, or won't (if it's the case that they can't, that's what private charities are for). Anyhow, he was making a joke, and you greenie libs are notoriously humorless unless a conservative is the butt of the joke.
Which also explains the color of the landscape, the cinnamon reddish-brown of the spice melange; and the blue-within-blue color of the probe's camera lenses.
Q: Why couldn't the fisherman stop spinning?
A: Angler momentum
[An original!]
Q: What's grey and proves the nondenumerability of the Reals?
A: Cantor's Diagonal Elephant
Q: What's yellow and depends on the Axiom of Choice?
A: Zorn's Lemmon
Q: What's yellow and is expressible as a power series?
A: A bananalytic function
Q: What does a mathematician do when he's constipated?
A: He work's it out with a pencil.
THANK YOU! I'll be here all week...
His stuff was totally original, in a different way from Philip K. Dick's oeuvre is different. Short stories "Scanners Live in Vain", "The Game of Rat and Dragon", "Queen of the Afternoon, "A Planet Named Shayol", and "The Dead Lady of Clown Town". Read about what Fremen would have been in a free society in the novel "Norstrilia", along with the trained spiders of Earthport, speiking and heiring, and laminated mouse-brain robots. He also wrote, as either Paul Linebarger (his given name) or Felix C. Forrest "Atomsk", "Ria", and "Europa". I reread the SF books and collections about every 18 months or so, takes me back to when I first read them as a teenager.
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I can't think of an easier language to learn (I even teach >40 yo women now and then!) or a quicker language to code in. Once you're accustomed to it, the code just flows out
I suspect that you don't know Perl.
And how long would it take to learn Perl? Do you think say, 3 weeks of learning/working with Perl would get you as much coding productivity as 3 weeks of learning/working with Python? I think not. As for doing regular expressions with Python v. Perl: regex's are brain-twisters no matter what you're using, Perl, Python, sed, even awk. And Perl borrows from BASIC (!), where a leading symbol tells you what kind of variable it is! Ever make the $var @var _var %var ~var error? (and I know some of them are not really Perl, but you get my point)
I was taking a Unix/C/C++ certification class at SFSU five years ago, and until then, I was deciding whether I should stay in public education or seriously persue a system administrator job. After that, the decision had been made for me. Jobs dried up, and the ones that remained were filled by people who had actually been administering systems and not taking a class in administrering systems. Fortunately, I don't mind remaining a high school math teacher, because I love children.
Maybe they use some from of PRML.
Another turn of the Great Wheel. Give something old a new name and it's brand new. It's been this way since MicroSoft invented computers in 1981. Choke off Arizona's oxygen!
when I see it. Maybe Duke Nukem Forever and TF2 will come out before then.
Bruce Schneier points out the problem of false positives in his "Secrets and Lies", and you'll get the same argument in any freshman statistics class: If the target population (of identified terrorists in the country, or people with AIDS) is extremely small, the probability of a false positive is greater than the probability of a true positive. If this system is correct 93% of the time, it's wrong 7% of the time. How many terrorists are there in the average metropolitan airport? I'd say zero (on average) How many people would be incorrectly identified? 7%. An airport with, say, 2000 people in it would have 140 of them misidentified. Even if the average airport had 20 terrorists, the false positives or misidentified would greatly outnumber them. And since the system is wrong 7% of the time, one or 2 of those 20 terrorists would be misidentified as not being a terrorist.
I teach CS in high school, and C++ and Java require a lot of handwaving and "Pay no attention to the #include (or public static void main() ) behind the curtain!" Write yourself a little "Hello, World" in C++, Java, and in Python. Which is shorter, meaning, which has fewer opportunities for simple errors? More comprehensible? Has less to explain about it?
Python is more versatile than Java. Want to explore the procedural world of hoary computer languages from the past? Python is procedural. Want to build a program using object oriented pardigms? Python is an OO language. Want to use bizarre (to me, at least) functional programming paradigms? Python supports that, too. A quick one-off script? Python. Fake-out simple GUIs? Python and Tkinter, or PyGTK, or PyQt (what an opportunity missed for QtPy!)or wxPython, or even Swing and AWT with Jython! CGI programming? Python. Even without a do...until() construct, you can program simply and easily, exploring all the important themes of a CS curriculum, with immediate feedback from the interpreter, without the compile step Java requires. Python runs on many typical desktop machines, even the modest P-150 laptop this humble teacher's salary affords (OK, it's really my wife who only lets me afford my modest laptop) Java doesn't run on it well, but Python runs fast enough on any machine my student's are likely to have at home, from the latest AlienWare to a donated Garage-a-tronic. Next year, I'll be using Python first, then migrate to Java to prepare for the AP exam, once they have their sea legs (Get it "C" legs?!? I slay me)
But vi is so much faster! Put you CTRL key between TAB and LShift, as God intended, and ESC is as quick as CTRL-[ ! A simple '' gets you back to where you started your search from! Set a bookmark with ma, and get to it with 'a ! MIRACULOUS! As for vi clones, vim sucks (If I wanted Emacs, I'd use Emacs). The 1T vi clone is Elvis.
And didn't Ruby fix Python already, in the same way that Python fixed Perl? May Prothon is actually the name of this anime robot.
There are so many causes because there is so much injustice.
No, because there is too much free time for people who have only learned to emote and not to think. The things the Green Party advocates are always the wrong things, but they feel right. Social justice always means taking from those who produce and giving it to those who don't, or won't (if it's the case that they can't, that's what private charities are for). Anyhow, he was making a joke, and you greenie libs are notoriously humorless unless a conservative is the butt of the joke.
This will straighten you out.
Ironic that Cherry picked that statement to make.
Which also explains the color of the landscape, the cinnamon reddish-brown of the spice melange; and the blue-within-blue color of the probe's camera lenses.
Q: Why couldn't the fisherman stop spinning? A: Angler momentum [An original!] Q: What's grey and proves the nondenumerability of the Reals? A: Cantor's Diagonal Elephant Q: What's yellow and depends on the Axiom of Choice? A: Zorn's Lemmon Q: What's yellow and is expressible as a power series? A: A bananalytic function Q: What does a mathematician do when he's constipated? A: He work's it out with a pencil. THANK YOU! I'll be here all week...
MicroMechaGodzilla!
Assuming the data that allows you to do the rollback hasn't been corrupted. Is your confidence in MS system software that great?
Which gesture makes it crash? This would save a lot of time going through the half-dozen or so keystrokes it usually takes.
Is it just me, or does the large close-up of Mars' Hellas Basin on the Hubble site look like Yosemite Sam?
His stuff was totally original, in a different way from Philip K. Dick's oeuvre is different. Short stories "Scanners Live in Vain", "The Game of Rat and Dragon", "Queen of the Afternoon, "A Planet Named Shayol", and "The Dead Lady of Clown Town". Read about what Fremen would have been in a free society in the novel "Norstrilia", along with the trained spiders of Earthport, speiking and heiring, and laminated mouse-brain robots. He also wrote, as either Paul Linebarger (his given name) or Felix C. Forrest "Atomsk", "Ria", and "Europa". I reread the SF books and collections about every 18 months or so, takes me back to when I first read them as a teenager.