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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
