How is a language without personality and history any good? Natural languages are not meant to be formal.
Its not meant to be a litterary language, just an easy way that people can communicate with each-other. That's really a moot point as it has obviously failed in this primary aim anyway.
Could have been worse? Python is a fantastic first language to learn how programming is done, especially in the context of getting another job done (Science, Math, etc.)
I agree it's a good choice. Personally I think it would be slightly easier to start with typed languages so that you would have more appreciation of the transformations that go on behind the scenes, but at worst that will be half an hour of confusion followed by "ah that's what it was doing for me".
Right... so a Microsoft approved curriculum. Good for a trade school, awful for a person who wants to actually learn something.
They could have a patent lawyer in the classroom. The students could carry out an exercise like writing a tic-tac-toe game, then the lawyer could explain how they had infringed 15 user interface patents, a method of representing spatial coordinates as data, and were also guilty of trademark infringement.
it is the same as stealing money from old women at knifepoint.
You mean you are likely to be pepper sprayed then bludgeoned with a handbag?
Also, does concealing a memory device now automatically imply child porn?
No it could be something really serious like copyright infringement
Read about the new ridiculous rules the FAA imposed about drones...
Until some moron flys one into the path of a commercial airliner, small plane, or helicopter, and people die - than it's "why isn't the FAA doing something about this?"
You mean "until some Muslim flys one
Or maybe not, yours probably revolve around dodgy sex too
That depends - are you talking style or species?
What kind of idiots did they pick for their study?
Sadomasochists?
Uh, I don't think the United Kingdom has any Republicans, or at least none with any particular political power...
British republicans are av fringe group, as you would expect the term "republican" has an entirely different meaning in a monarchy, constitutional or otherwise.
that is true
My mechanical one does this. The digital ones just boringly change instantly
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
