On the other hand, this does beggar for a reason to bother with Python at all. It seems you could be happy doing BASH scripts for Linux or DOS batch files for Windows. Both are "nice&simple" scripting languages free of object oriented contamination.
not really, what I need that Python has and bash&dos don't is:
1. portability (interpreter runs quite a bit architectures) 2. good basic library (already there) 3. modules for structuring the application (objects unnecessary) 4. high-level data structures (dictionaries & lists) 5. no strong static type checking 6. very nice syntax
so initially I was hoping this is all what Python is about, but when I started looking into it it has a huge amount of additional (mainly OO) stuff which makes it in my view quite bloated now... anyhow, I guess I'll have to constrain what can be included in the code through different policies rather than language limitations...
Thanks
Davor
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