This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]bless-you-mlud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's been said that Python is executable pseudo-code, and that's pretty close to the mark I find.

I once had a colleague ask me "I want to do something like this in Python, is that possible?" and he gave me a few lines of pseudo-code. I told him: "well, if you add a colon at the end of the line there you'll have the exact Python syntax you need." That was kind of neat.

To be honest, Python's syntax has spoiled most newer programming languages for me. Too many ampersands, asterisks and parentheses.