Re:Is Python the Future of Programming?
by bsder on Saturday July 21, 2018 @08:06PM
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It depends.
I can have an intern up and programming basic Python in about 3 days from nothing. I have run this experiment multiple times with teenagers.
The nice part about Python is that I can gradually introduce them to new features as they hit the problems the features are meant to solve.
And, I WILL argue that Python's syntax is easier to keep in your brain. Somewhere on HN there was an article showing the grammars of various programming languages as connected graphs, Python was quite obviously simpler than just about everything else.
I can have an intern up and programming basic Python in about 3 days from nothing. I have run this experiment multiple times with teenagers.
The nice part about Python is that I can gradually introduce them to new features as they hit the problems the features are meant to solve.
And, I WILL argue that Python's syntax is easier to keep in your brain. Somewhere on HN there was an article showing the grammars of various programming languages as connected graphs, Python was quite obviously simpler than just about everything else.