Re: Is this a good time to start learning python?
- From: "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:36:05 -0300
En Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:40:40 -0300, Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:
Recently I woke up inclined to take up the task of learning another
programming language. I've already dipped my toes in Perl (I've read online
tutorials and wrote a couple of irrelevant pet projects) but, as the
computers at my workplace only sport the python interpreter, it probably
means that learning python will end up serving me better, at least in the
short run. Plus, you know how Perl goes.
So far the decision seems to be a no brainer. Yet, Python 3000 will arrive
in a few months. As it isn't backwards compatible with today's Python,
there is the risk that no matter what I learn until then, I will end up
having to re-learn at least a considerable part of the language. To put it
in other words, I fear that I will be wasting my time.
Don't be scared by the "backwards incompatible" tag - it's the way to get rid of nasty things that could not be dropped otherwise. The basics of Python will continue to be the same, it's not a new, different language; learning Python 2.X isn't a waste of time.
Python 3 won't be in widespread use until some (long?) time, and some people won't ever consider it until Python 3.1 arrives; so Python 2.X will continue being used for a long time.
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Gabriel Genellina
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