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This has nothing to do with Python. It's just a "gotcha" of Go.
by urda 9y ago
This has nothing to do with Python. It's just a "gotcha" of Go.
- deepsun 9y agoI believe he's talking about what he should teach to students, and his point is that Python is more intuitive than Go for newcomers. I personally don't really care how easy it is to write a "hello world" in Go, nor Python. My day job involves big projects, so I'm pretty fine with "hello world" taking 10k lines as long as it will scale slower with complexity than other language. The same argument about learning curve -- I would be happy with a language that requires couple of years of learning to even start, as long as it takes less time in the following 20 years I'm going to be using it.
- pvg 9y agoI believe he's talking about what he should teach to students What gives you that impression?
- deepsun 9y agoHuh, I was reading it fast, and didn't realize that word "students" in the text meant a variable name, not his students. My bad :)
- pvg 9y agoHeh yeah and I ended up re-reading it looking for some indication the writer was an instructor that I'd missed and didn't notice 'students' at all.
- s_ngularity 9y agoI don't get that impression at all from the article. I think he's just trying to warn others coming to Go from Python about a particular language quirk. Nothing about the intuitiveness of Go or Python at all