[LAU] No batch processing on Linux?

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Arnold Krille's message of 2010-09-25 13:00:29 +0200:
> On Saturday 25 September 2010 10:49:35 Chris Cannam wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Joel Roth <joelz at pobox.com> wrote:
> > > I guess I am reacting to what I imagine is language
> > > preference projected onto absolute judgment on merits of a
> > > particular language.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps you are speaking from years of software development
> > > experience.
> > 
> > I have quite a lot of (mostly enjoyable) experience writing Perl over
> > the years, including some fairly big programs, and hardly any
> > experience with Python (a language I dislike on instinct).  But my
> > experience with Perl has been that returning to my own projects is
> > harder than it should be, and harder than in languages like C and C++.
> >  That is probably due to my own limitations, particularly when it
> > comes to discipline, but it's empirically true in my case.
> > 
> > The real assumption I made back there was that Python code is any
> > easier to return to -- I haven't the experience to judge, really, I'm
> > just going on hearsay from friends and acquaintances.
> 
> Python actually forces you to be more disciplined. Which really make returning 
> to the code easy.

Isn't this only about indentation? Indentation might be important for
readability, but whether it's forced by the language or not doesn't seem
to be such a big deal for me.

> Using python for small apps/tools is easy. Using python for large projects is 
> easy.
> Extending your C/C++-project with python is easy.
> Using your own C/C++ parts in python is easy.
> Porting parts of your python project to C/C++ is easy (think prototyping in 
> python and port to compiled-language once the interface is finished and the 
> optimizations begin).
> 
> I for one am very glad I learned python a few years back. Its fun.
> 
> Disclaimer: I don't have any experience in perl, but what I get from the perl-
> snapshots in German Linux-Magazin, it looks harder then python...
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Arnold
>