Thanks for this! For a long time I used the Python interpreter mostly as a glorified calculator, but I recently had to make a note to tweak a print statement to

Thanks for this! For a long time I used the Python interpreter mostly as a glorified calculator, but I recently had to make a note to tweak a print statement to use parenthesis, and thought about how far the community has come. I think a lot of people forget the dark days where they'd tell you if you want to learn to program, first you need to learn Q-BASIC, then you need to learn enough C to be a malware writer, then you need to learn everything in the ESR "How to be a hacker" essay... and then you might be told one summer maybe you should try Python if the ambiguity in Perl's syntax is frustrating you -- not only is the language making strikes, but I love how often the barrier is my attention span, not the documentation. (The problem used to be the reverse when I first got interested in general purpose computing... little to no guides and a lot of very rude people posting during work hours.) Thanks for all the efforts :-)