The reference stuff is natural to old C programmers, if they think a bit. It is ugly, but will just take some work hours to learn. All that is dwarfed by learn

The reference stuff is natural to old C programmers, if they think a bit. It is ugly, but will just take some work hours to learn. All that is dwarfed by learning the language specific libraries, no matter which language you use. And by the way, use strict/warnings, so you aren't bitten by a spelling error for variable names. :-) Edit: BTW 2, how do you do one-liners in Python? :-)