[Oberon] Python for an Oberon user, derived from Oberon for a C++ user.

[Frans-Pieter Vonck]

You can do the following in python
a = 20
b = '40'
c = esp.socket()
the variable receives automatically the type of the initial value.

Variables can be declared everywhere in the program.
The same goes for importing modules.
This is a necessary feature for using the interpreter shell of python.

Using the python shell is good for trial and error tinkering with 
concepts (the cowboy way as lars called it).


I'm learning some python basics for using it with a esp8226 
microcontroller, micropython. I intend to use it for a introductory 
course in programming microcontrollers.

Still I regularly use Nikitin's "Into the realm of Oberon" as a basis 
for my introductory programming lessons.

Greets,
F.P.


Srinivas Nayak schreef op 2016-09-29 08:45:
>>   This reminds me of how perl slowly becomes more statically typed or
>> strongly typed too. Basically it goes like this: a bunch of redneck
>> cowbow programmers think they are too good for static strong typing, 
>> so
>> they release a dynamic language and everybody raves about how great it 
>> is
>> for 10-20 years.
>> 
>>   After maybe 12 years they start adding features that make the 
>> language
>> less and less like a dynamic language and start to introduce more 
>> safety,
>> paddling back (or peddling back, take your pick) on their old cowboy
>> redneck attitude they first had "we don't need no stinking static 
>> strong
>> typing, heck we don't even need Types at all!".
>> 
>>   After 20 years the language is no longer perl or python and is 
>> something
>> else entirely. Python version 20.562 no longer looks like python 
>> version
>> 15.009890890 and has drastically changed, similar to how Perl went
>> through its transition of a throw together language to now a throw
>> together language with more static/safety features bolted on to it, 
>> and
>> some even would say it's a rewrite, which could be an ongoing attempt 
>> at
>> humor.
> 
> 
> I agree.
> 
> 
> With thanks and best regards,
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
> 
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