On Sep 26, 8:10 pm, "Tim Rowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/27 Aaron Castironpi Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > But I, and I imagine I'm not the only one, would love to know the > > example that C# developed faster than Python. I suppose the fact that > > the line of wx specification that has two identifiers where C# has one > > is more of a drain on programmer resources than may commonly be > > recognized--- not the same as the cost of one extra word in a paper or > > in an editorial. Similarly, maybe the program that has one extra > > identifier in a line takes a lot more time to develop. > > But I didn't use wx -- that's rather the point. Long before the days > of Python, I kept wanting to use Modula2 but kept getting driven back > to C because in Modula2 I kept having to write stuff that was already > in C libraries. Modula2 was a far better language, but C usually was > far more productive because of what went around it. C#'s tight > integration with .net and VS mean that it's not a question of one > identifier instead of two, it's *zero* identifiers instead of two > because the tool does it all for me. Does that mean that C# is a > better language than Python? No, of course not. Does it mean that what > I was doing was not possible in Python? No, of course not. Does it > mean that C# was more productive than Python for me doing that > particular job? Yes it does. (FWIW, I also found the .net XML handling > easier to cope with on that same job). > > One day Iron Python plus the VS integration might wean me off C# but > last time I looked it wasn't close. Maybe I should take another look > and see how it's coming on. > > -- > Tim Rowe
No way. It's *zero* instead of one, if so, because the only thing C# has is a bunch of handcuffs and implicit 'self'. You have a line like: n= aTree.ExpandedCount What in 'wx', which I -am- using, <avoids insubordinate tone>, takes more identifiers: n= self.aTree.ExpandedCount or if you're 'inlining', for lack of better words, everything, outside a class, n= aForm.aTree.ExpandedCount. For a grand total of 1 'aForm' identifier that C# infers implicitly. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
