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From: petrilli at trump.amber.org (Christopher Petrilli)
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Date: 02 May 1999 08:52:55 PDT
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Subject: Books on Python now vs in 8 months.
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References: <372BEA9D.CAA0A5B7@earthlink.net> <v04003a00b351d11d0329@[195.180.62.188]>
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Message-ID: <7ghscn$337@chronicle.concentric.net>
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Phil Voris wrote:
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>I've been considering learning Python as a means of getting insight into
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>OO thinking. I have been reluctant to by the snake or rat books because
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>I have read that future versions of Python -- mayber even versions as
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>early as later this year -- will be radicaly different and in some ways
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>backwards incompatible. I ask myself if it's worthwhile to learn it one
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>way if it will change so quickly. Does anyone have insight as to how
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>much it's _really_ going to change...?
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Well, I'd use my crystal ball to tell you, but the proximity to Guido's
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time machine has caused it to show me Dan Quayle as president, so you
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know you just can't trust it! <wink>
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Seriously, while Python2 is bantied around a lot, it's still stuck somewhere
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in the flying Dutchman's head, and nobody else really know what will
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change. Having said that, I'm willing ot bet nothing Earth shattering
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will occur, a lot of niggling problems will be fixed, some new "optional"
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features (maybe pseudo-static types for performance) will reappear,
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the libraries might be reoganized (see Paul Prescod's thread on hierarchical
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packages), etc etc, but I don't htink you're going to see:
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* Curly braces
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* 1/2 = 0.5 :-)
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Seriously, the basic syntax and structure won't change... you'll be able to
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take all knowledge and work with it... there will just be some small
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adjustments to things here and there. This won't be like your standard
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Java x.x.1->x.x.2 release where everything changes, and 1->2 where nothing
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significant happens :-)
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Chris
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--
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| Christopher Petrilli ``Television is bubble-gum for
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| petrilli at amber.org the mind.''-Frank Lloyd Wright
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