25 Sep
2010
25 Sep
'10
1 p.m.
On Saturday 25 September 2010 10:49:35 Chris Cannam wrote:
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Joel Roth
<joelz(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Python actually forces you to be more disciplined. Which really make returning
to the code easy.
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
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.