"I am finally learning to program"

Quoting:its sarcasm, if its too subtle for you maybe a blunt [...] Sorry if your on of those that needs the clue by four approach.

Quoting:BTW - that's an interesting API - but that's ALL it is - an API - a specification. You can't use it directly.

Quoting:As for your snide comment about PERL - that's an OPINION

#!/usr/bin/python
class Person:
    def first(self, fn = None):
        if(fn):
            self.first_name = fn
        return self.first_name
    def last(self, ln = None):
        if(ln):
            self.last_name = ln
        return self.last_name
bob = Person()
bob.first("Bob")
bob.last("Jones")
print("%s %s" % (bob.first(), bob.last()))

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @people;
$people[0]{first_name} = "Bob";
$people[0]{last_name} = "Jones";
print( sprintf("%s %sn", 
    $people[0]{first_name},
    $people[0]{last_name}) );

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
package Person;
    sub new {
        shift;
        my $self = {};
        bless($self);
        return $self;
    }
    sub first {
        my $self = shift;
        if(@_) {
            $self->{"first_name"} = shift;
        }
        return $self->{"first_name"};
    }
    sub last {
        my $self = shift;
        if(@_) {
            $self->{"last_name"} = shift;
        }
        return $self->{"last_name"};
    }
1;
my $person = new Person;
$person->first("Bob");
$person->last("Jones");
print( sprintf("%s %sn", $person->first, $person->last) );

Quoting:But what rational person is going to look at either Perl example and think "that was easy"?

#!/usr/bin/python
people = [{"first_name": "Bob", "last_name": "Jones"}]
print("%s %s" % (people[0]["first_name"],
  people[0]["last_name"]))

Quoting:Building pointless restrictions into the syntax of a language does nothing but add to the distractions.

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Quoting:Python or Perl, both multi megabyte monsters that will take the breath out of the best processors available to mankind and turn them to the equivalent of a 50-year long smoking asthmatic obese old man.

Quoting:Unfortunately it's very hard to wrap your head around it.

Quoting:a problem solvable on one Turing-complete machine, is solvable on any Turing-complete machine. A lesser theorem is that "any iterative procedure has a recursive equivalent, and vice-versa."