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Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better.
Guido Van Rossum / Computer Programmer
Get Better
Python
Support
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If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.
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Design
Design Your Own
Designer
Language
Pitfalls
Amateur
Thousands
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Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.
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Learning
Guarantees That
Hate
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Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.
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Littles
Python
Too Much
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I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.
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Levels
Software
Structure
Tools
Way
Better Way
Clearly
Tremendous
Value
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Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent.
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Independent
Orientation
Python
Object
Platform
Properties
Techniques
Yes
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There was a project at Lawrence Livermore National Labs where many years ago they went down this path for scripting and controlling very large numerical calculations.
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Calculations
Labs
Path
Years Ago
Controlling
Project
Numerical
Scripting
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My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.
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Advice
People
Perception
Python
Colored
Somewhat
Libraries
Standard
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Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.
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Host
Independent
Java
Mark
Python
Fits
Perfectly
Scripting
Windows
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It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.
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Data
Mistake
Should Have
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I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.
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Decision
Needs
Purpose
Special
Decisions
General
Existing
Facing
Guess
Toughest
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There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and outright bugs in abstractions or their implementation.
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Bugs
Causes
Simple
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In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar to what you find, for example, in Java and, in general, in systems programming languages.
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Built
Daily Work
Example
Focus
Java
Packages
Programming
Python
General
Languages
Find
Complex
Daily
Distributed
For Example
Similar
Systems
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If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.
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Funny
Common
Fit
Java
Language
Particular
Point Of View
Python
Talking
Views
Amongst
Funny Thing
Point
Restricted
View
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The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.
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Environment
Programming
Tools
User Friendly
Extremely
Project
Material
Stream
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Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.
Guido Van Rossum / Computer Programmer
Belief
Details
Easier
Harder
Java
Programming
Python
Teach
Now
Lot
Same
Languages
Either
Well
Same Time
Scripting
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