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On Saturday 25 September 2010 10:49:35 Chris Cannam wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Joel Roth  wrote:

> > I guess I am reacting to what I imagine is language

> > preference projected onto absolute judgment on merits of a

> > particular language.

> >=20

> > Perhaps you are speaking from years of software development

> > experience.

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> 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.

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> 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 return=

ing=20

to the code easy.
Using python for small apps/tools is easy. Using python for large projects =

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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=

=20

python and port to compiled-language once the interface is finished and the=

=20

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 pe=

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snapshots in German Linux-Magazin, it looks harder then python...
Have fun,
Arnold
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