Re: Best first programming language

> YES, I think it has something to do with the way the syntax works, in
> Python, for  whether one "wants" to start
> a new line or not.
>    Instead of being specifically "indicated", e.g., by having some kind
> of  \n right where one "wants" to start a new line, it is determined by
> whether or not a COMMA is present, after the last item in the list (of
> stuff to be printed).  (The last item in the list might also be the only
> item in the list...)  Note that, in a sense the "polarity" is kinda
> backwards
> from the "\n" way of doing things.  If the comma is ABSENT, then it
> ends the old line (starts a new one).
>     By the way, in the summer of 2007, I was searching in the on-line
> tutorial for Python, to find where it teaches (/slash, documents) about
> how this ["comma"] feature works.  I finally found it, but NOT by using
> the (very limited) indexing feature that is provided by that on-line
> tutorial for Python -- rather, I found it by using the "site:..." feature
> of
> doing a google search, and remembering that it can take any leading
> substring of the target URL, -- that is, it is NOT [!] limited to a domain
> name (as the word 'site:' might suggest).
>     In fact, I later wrote an e-mail to Alan Dayley (I looked for it today
> but I have been unable to find it...!) about using that "site:..." feature
> of
> doing a google search, and remembering that it can take any leading
> substring of the target URL -- so it can go beyond (by far) just limiting
> itself to the domain name part of the URL.
> --
> Mike Schwartz
> Glendale  AZ
> schwartz@acm.org