Someone Once Made a Remark That There Were Two Kinds of Programming Languages

From Prolog in Python – An Introduction

“Someone once made the remark that there were only two kinds of programming languages, Lisp and all the others. At that time the primary languages like Fortran were much more machine centric than those of today. That is, the way you programmed was, although more efficient, not too different than how you would program in machine language. Lisp with dynamic data, automatic garbage collection, and the ability for a lisp program to easily create and run more lisp code was very much an exception.

However over time, modern languages, like Python, came to support the kind of features found in Lisp. Today, the above remark might be changed to “Prolog and all the others”.”

I found a link to 50 Free Python Books and started looking at some of them. One of the most interesting was Python for Fun. I was amazed at what I found. I do like the author’s idea of fun! It was not meant for beginners (as I thought) but towards intermediate programmers.

Purpose of this Collection

This collection is a presentation of several small Python programs. They are aimed at intermediate programmers; people who have studied Python and are fairly comfortable with basic recursion and object oriented techniques. Each program is very short, never more than a couple of pages and accompanied with a write-up.

Looks at these projects.  I am certainly going to make some of these part of our tech talks and training programs.

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