On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:12:51PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 11/18/10 10:58 AM, Doug Ledford wrote: > > ----- "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:29:56PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > >>>>> Most code is not performance critical. > >>> > >>> Much more code than you think is performance critical, > >>> particularly when I can throw up 1000 instances of it in the > >>> cloud. > >>> > >>> /me considers making snide comment about Python and how many > >>> extra power stations we've built because of it ... > > Allow me: if we all turned off python apps for one hour, we would > > save enough electricity to power the entire world for a year. > > That electricity would be eaten up on developer workstations for the > increased code development, compile, and debug time it would take to > write the same tools in other languages.... C, Java and Python are not the only programming languages in the world. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
