In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith Dart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Aahz wrote: >> >> In fact, in some ways my fluency has degenerated now that I'm >> focusing on writing code for production. > >I'm curious about that last statement. Are you saying that if you >write, full time, code for "production", that fluency will decrease? Or >that the nifty recent features of Python (generators, etc.) are not >useful in "production" code?
Well, much of my code is maintenance rather than new code, which limits my ability to use newer features (such as new-style classes). In addition, our base version is currently still 2.2 (because that's what ships with RH9). Finally, I just don't have as much time for the Python community, which is where I've picked up much of my expertise over the years. I'm not suggesting that my experience is indicative of what anyone else would experience, though; it's just an interesting datapoint. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
