[GTALUG] Python 2 vs python 3 debate

[Bill Thanis]

Cliff, the answer to your question is no there is no need, but you seem to
keep coming up even after we have given you carte blanche permission.

Bill


On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Clifford Ilkay <clifford_ilkay at dinamis.com
> wrote:
>
> Is there really a need to moderate long-time members of this mailing
> list? I notice that every message I send is held in the moderator queue
> and is eventually released.
>
> On 12/17/2014 10:35 AM, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Clifford Ilkay
> > <clifford_ilkay at dinamis.com> wrote:
> >> I hear you! I'm learning Javascript and wondering, "How did this
> >> language become so ubiquitous? Why doesn't Python run in browsers? It's
> >> a great language for embeddable scripting."
> > The industry seems to like converters (i.e. GWT, Pygamas, etc.) and
> > not replacing JavaScript with projects like IronMonkey. Which is kind
> > of interesting considering there is a huge user base of Python
> > programmers who are coding on top of Microsoft's Excel (instead of
> > having to use VB.NET and C#).
>
> I'd looked at Pyjamas and I was never convinced of its merits. Like
> Brython that Jamon pointed out, it occurred to me as an interesting toy
> but not something I'd bet the farm on.
>
> > CoffeeScript has a Python like syntax (I'm loosely using the word
> > 'like') if you are interested in not having to write JavaScript. But
> > it compiles CoffeeScript into JavaScript so it's not the best thing in
> > the world.
>
> I don't see the point of CoffeeScript. It removes curly braces and some
> other constructs at the expense of reducing the number of people who can
> actually read the code I write.
>
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> Regards,
>
> Clifford Ilkay
> Dinamis
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