David Kastrup wrote:
As does any form of refactoring - Python is very poor for that because its whitespace issues. I think Python, although powerful, is not a good language to use, the number of times I've wasted time because of the whitespace indentation issues just make it a none-starter. Does anyone on this list know folks that teach CS or related topics - perhaps they'd have some useful feedback on which things the "average" (whatever that is) person struggles with when learning a language. Then from that you could make suitable choices for a first language. Python would not be my choice as a first language.Rob Kendrick <lua-l@nun.org.uk> writes:On 2009年9月22日 21:34:54 +0800 pan shizhu <pan.shizhu@gmail.com> wrote:IMO python is by far the better language for "first programming language" than Lua.If you're going to make an audacious assertion, please back it up with justification :)Justification changes the syntax.