Re: ewby on programming need some tips and tricks

  • From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:00:12 +0200

Well, I never found that a language has too much punctuation.
I prefer to use more strange variables like $! or $| than use more named methods, because english is not my native language, and I use to forget the exact syntax, while those chars are easier to remember and shorter to write.
And I also like to use braces because I can jump easier from the beginning of the block to the end of the block, or to select that block. 

Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 6:16 PM
Subject: RE: ewby on programming need some tips and tricks




No in fact I find many of the languages use to much punctuation.  I don't'
mean that python is better but I do mean it has some very nice features. I 
used to think like you do but now that AI have used the language heavily
since September I barely even think of having to indent.  I just do it by
default.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita 
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:35 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ewby on programming need some tips and tricks

If python wouldn't have this issue of indentation, it wouldn't need
workarounds for making it a little bit friendlier.
So I don't understand what you don't like when I said that python is less
friendly for the blind than other languages.
This doesn't mean that python can't be used by a blind programmer, but what I said was that other languages are more friendly. Don't you agree that they 

are more friendly than python?

But by the way, why would be python very useful?
I would really like to hear that. I mean, what it would be useful to, not
the fact that it has a strong OOP support.

Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Wright" <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: ewby on programming need some tips and tricks



Octavian Rasnita wrote:
"Well, I would also like to know what Jamal thinks about the friendlyness
of  Python"
Given his additions of Py-Dent and Py-Brace to EdSharp, I think it's
fairly evident that Jamal considers Python a very viable choice, although
my personal preference is just to manage the indentation raw.  Really,
Teddy, you're closing yourself off from a very useful language if you let
some of these extremely semantic sticking points get in the way.

JW

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