Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergraduate CS program (2009)

Re:Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergradua... by InafuSabi on Saturday December 29, 2018 @02:13AM (#18782430)

I had not coded in a long time. Not written any type of helloworld.c in years (more than a decade) I've recently updated and wedged in a programming ENV: on the machine I spent most time on these days.

I say wedged because IMHO programming env's are the easiest to setup and maintain in POSIX OS's. This closed source OS I'm most in (because I stream simulations & games on this DAW) is not really suited for it.

One of the 1st languages I installed was python. For me the reason is a nice Raspberry PI I got from a friend of mine, but most of all the accessability of the language on literally all OS's you can throw a stick at.

Another reason is

  python -v -m SimpleHTTPServer 8088

amazing, when you run it in verbose mode

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Re:Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergradua... by jrwr on Saturday December 29, 2018 @03:07AM (#18782583)

php -S 127.0.0.1:8088 is a good one as well, it helps with debugging PHP quickly (I still am in the boat as PHP being a better lang for handing web stuff)

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