{"id":48,"date":"2005-01-21T19:25:44","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T18:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-01-21T19:25:44","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T18:25:44","slug":"python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org\">Python<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a scripting language, in a similar vein to Perl.  However, to steal an analogy from someone else, where Perl is executable line-noise, Python is executable pseudocode.<br \/>\n<!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an easy language to get into.  Its most immediately visible difference from, say, C or Java is that it doesn&#8217;t use semi-colons or {}.  Rather, all code is blocked out by way of indentation.  Perhaps it&#8217;s just me being new at this, but it felt strange to write a program and not have it give a cryptic error message that I eventually traced to a missed semi-colon.<\/p>\n<p>The main virtues of Python, however, are its extreme committment to object oriented programming (quite literally <em>everything<\/em> is an object, which seems to make some tasks much easier), its large standard library, and its very powerful list datatype.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, it seems to result in understandable and maintainable programs.  Which is nice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Python. It&#8217;s a scripting language, in a similar vein to Perl. However, to steal an analogy from someone else, where Perl is executable line-noise, Python is executable pseudocode. It&#8217;s an easy language to get into. Its most immediately visible difference from, say, C or Java is that it doesn&#8217;t use semi-colons or {}. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-for-apples","tag-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}