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Again, this is a CS/Math major kind of thinking. The term __main__ means nothing syntactically. If we care about language acquisition -- thus language adoption
by scoofy 22d ago
Again, this is a CS/Math major kind of thinking. The term __main__ means nothing syntactically. If we care about language acquisition -- thus language adoption -- it is always better to make "very common terms" in the language understandable to someone who is completely illiterate to your formal language.
I honestly think one of the main reasons why python is so successful is as simple as:
print "Hello world!"
...and later:
print("Hello world!")
It might not seem like much, but when you're asking someone to pick up a language outside of a classroom setting, it's just much more intuitive than:
echo "Hello world!";
or:
console.log("Hello world!");
or god forbid:
public class GFG{
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello world!");
}
}
These little things matter in the long run, even if they don't seem like they matter when you're already fluent.
- frollogaston 22d agoIdk what's better, console.log or print, cause way back as a beginner I was confused what it means to print something. Like with ink? They're both ok, unlike the C++ or Java ways. But Python breaking hello world in version 3 was crazy.
- scoofy 21d agoAgain, I would argue “very common commands” like printing text should be so unbelievably intuitive that beginners can use them even before learning what a “console” is, why there are “logs” and how dot notation works.