Re: "One-cell" language?

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Fredrik Hubinette <[email protected]> wrote:
> .o( tries to imagine a casual conversation which involves Pike, but fails
> miserably )

Hehe. (And hmm. Your "thinks" emote looks very like the one from
Threshold RPG, which is written in LPC. Maybe it has broader use?) In
one of my other lives, I mentor/tutor Python students with a company
called Thinkful (www.thinkful.com), and when we're introducing
ourselves, I'll talk about some of the languages I work with.
Sometimes I mention that Python is, in my opinion, the second best
language in the world... and since humans are naturally curious, this
invariably triggers the obvious question "So which language is
first?". :) In that context, of course, it makes perfect sense to
explain Pike in terms of Python; and some of the students already have
some familiarity with at least one C-style language, so saying "Pike
is Python with Java-style syntax" etc is generally sufficient to
explain the language's position. (If I have more time, I'll explain
its emphasis on server-side work - I doubt very much that Python's
standard library will ever include a DNS server! - but otherwise we
just move on.)

ChrisA