I keep a backup of my brain at [1]
http://icopiedyou.com - found
this from Oct 28, 2015: "Same with me and Python. I whipped
together something quick in Python to see if I could make
Minecraft PC do a few things using this mod:
[2]
https://github.com/kbsriram/mcpiapi and it was pretty easy. "
I've recommended Python to people for years even though I'm not
fluent in it yet. To me, Python is the closest replacement to
Microsoft BASIC from the 80s: It's all purpose. It's powerful.
While it has some wonky bits, just like BASIC did/does, it's
mostly very easy to read and clear. It enforces good programming
habits by design. I usually bring up Python when I wax nostalgic
about the days that kids HAD to learn to program to get their
computers to do ANYTHING. It benefited me and I think it
benefits anybody. BASIC has been dead for years now, at least
the "easy-to-use" form that I grew up with. Python is equivalent
to me in power and ease-of-use. I just have to learn it
completely one of these days smile emoticon [I can *think* in
BASIC code. It got me through math classes in school. While they
were doing formulas on the board, I was turning them in to
algorithms in pseudo-code in my head so they made sense. == Oh,
other languages have more wonky bits for sure. It's more like
some philosophical differences than "wonky bits". The way python
does variables assignments is a little different for example.
You don't get two variables when you make a new variable equal
to an old variable - you get two of the same variable with two
different names. It's not wrong just a different philosophy. But
I've heard very few complaints about Python except its
strictness really. I highly recommend it. I never saw any wonky
bits with old-school BASIC either but people tell me GOTO was a
mistake which is why so many languages try to hard to remove it.
Silly really - assembler uses goto as critical to its
functioning. [your computer is BASICALLY a gigantic spreadsheet
with cell pointers that rotate - they're usually on a stack] So
mostly philosophical differences. But nothing that doesn't take
a moment of, "Oh, ok it works this way? Ok, got it" == [or the
contents rotate and the pointers stay still. Whatever - 6 of
one, 1/2 a dozen of the other tongue emoticon ] =
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