Greetings. On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:31:43 +0100 Szymon Olewniczak <szymon.olewnic...@rid.pl> wrote: > Hi, > I've recently had a presentation(during local Linux User Group meeting) > about some basic ideas Unix philosophy and suckless projects. This has led > my attention once to the topic of programming languages and I must admit > that I've found Python much less harmful that I had previously > considered it to be. And when I can point out why does Perl, PHP, JS > sucks, python is another way round. Python has precise design, the code > is readable and what is very important it simplify many things. In > addition it has many great libraries so why > do not use Python at least as a prototype language. Mayby it's > multi-paradigm aproach is the problem but what alternatives to python do you > see? > awk? Limbo? And at last what do you thing about Ruby which is quite > similar to the python in many aspects?
I am using Python to prototype. But prototypes have to become real ap‐ plications by rewriting them in C. Ruby is for hipsters. Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann
