Hi Micheal Indeed, good advice!
I am planning on using Python for everything I can. I just need a little extra speed for data collection and threading during collection. I think I will learn C so that I can re-use code from other open source projects. All of this advice has been great, thanks to you and to everyone that posted! -Patrick Michael L Torrie wrote: > Patrick wrote: > >> Hi Everyone. >> >> Sorry for the flame war bait, I know how passionate language debates >> get but I need some guidance. I am using PyGTK right now and I am happy >> with it, but a day is coming soon were the speed limitations and >> less-then-straight-forward threading will be an issue. >> > > I don't see any reason at all why a GUI done with PyGTK should be any > slower than a GUI done with straight C. Thus I don't see any compelling > reason to abandon Python for C or C++. > > That said, however, Python sometimes isn't the right language to use for > computationally-intensive tasks. > > Personally I think you are going about this the wrong way. You could be > wanting to do premature optimization. Rather than trying to replace > python, you should consider either extending python with C or C++, to > replace the slowest and most-used computational paths, and stick with > python for everything else. It's very easy to write python modules in C > (10 hours to learn), or C++ (Boost makes it easy to wrap C++ classes and > functions). Alternatively you can code in C or C++ and embed Python to > drive your GUI. > > >> I figure my next move should be to learn C or C++. I would like to stay >> up-to-date with things and I would like to be able to reuse GTK code >> from other Apps. >> > > When it comes to the basic API, translating a code-generated GUI between > python and C++ (with GTKmm) should be very simple. Even translating it > to C won't be that hard either, except that you don't have an easy way > to bind callbacks to a particular instance of data without some work, > like setting data values and using the void *data argument on the callbacks. > > >> I thought that C++ must be the way to go as it can do everything that C >> can "plus plus" but some heavy hitters don't seem enthused with it, >> Linus Torvalds in particular has been quoted as calling it a "horrible >> language". >> > > >From my experience it is those that don't understand C++ and how to > wield it that describe it that way. Torvalds is biased anyway, since > he's focused on kernel programming. > > >> I can only spend 8-12 hours a week programming, I am not a professional >> programmer, is C++ to complicated? Is C going out of date? Am I limited >> with C? >> > > C++ is complicated, but not overly so. I feel that coming from Python, > C++ is probably going to be easier for you to move to than C. > > Again, though, I think > > >> Thanks-Patrick >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-app-devel-list mailing list >> gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
