Arnold Krille wrote:
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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).
I guess programming languages are, first of all, the tools one uses for
telling computers ('stupid' machines) what to do. So the choice of the
tool depends on many factors amongst which personal preference. Of
course using bash to write a DAW wouldn't probably be the best choice,
but if anyone managed to... praise to them! :)
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++.
[...]
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.
Don't underestimate that!
[...]
With python it seems to be "only" intendation, but this results in clearer
structures of code and less parenthesis. Which results in a much higher
readability. Sure, you can write readable code in other languages too. But how
many people do you know that write readable code (in non-python) when the
projects deadline is only two weeks away?
I agree. In the last few years I've really come to love python... I also
find it one of the best languages when it comes to 'writing down' an
idea, an algorithm etc. without being 'berried' by the language syntax,
idioms etc. (the indentation is well worth the semicolon saving :)). The
nice thing of python is that it allows both functional
'hackerish-script' for quick and dirty stuff and very elegant
object-oriented styles (and if you like you can even mix them). Even the
first seems always 'cleaner' and more readable than many other languages.
Much of it, I guess, is also thanks to the ability of running python
'real-time' and experimenting with it... A bit like pd for audio where
you can hack and experiment (prototype?) stuff in real time and then
make the 'real' app/script when you are ready.
But again... What would life be without variety?
Lorenzo
And pythons inbuilt documentation-system saves you another three days of that
deadline...
Have fun,
Arnold
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