Francesco Bochicchio wrote:
Il Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:34:23 +0200, Stef Mientki ha scritto:
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I'm very
satisfied with Python, and must say it's much more beautiful language
than Delphi, seen over the full width of programming. Although both
languages are Object Oriented, for some (unknown) reason it's 10 times
easier to maintain and extend libraries in Python than in Delphi.
I WOULD BE MUCH OBLIGED, IF SOMEONE CAN EXPLAIN THAT DIFFERENCE ! And
with wxPython and some tools I made, I almost have the same environment
as Delphi.
IMO:
- dynamic typing
- powerful built-in types like lists, sets and dictionaries
- very rich function definition syntax, with multiple returns,
yield, values passed by position and by name, automatic
grouping of parameters in list/dictionaries
- rich standard library, which becomes impressive if you accound for all
the non standard modules that you find in internet. And, unlike another
language wich shall remain unnamed (starts with J), most of python
library modules have the same pratical approach of C standard
library.
Never used seriously delphi, but played a little with it: IIRC, under the
nice IDE and GUI toolkit, the language itself is a kind of object-pascal.
This would place it more or less at the same level of abstraction of
Java, way below languages like python and ruby,
Thanks Francesco,
for these features and indeed the Object Pascal language is indeed
inferior to Python.
Some of Python features that I find an enormous improvement over Delphi:
- extending functions and classes with keyword arguments, without
affecting the previous use of these declarations
- array slicing
- having 1 procedure that can handle every type, opposed to the Delphi
overload method
Some minor points of Python, compared to Delphi
- rich standard library is less than in Delphi. It might be just as
large, but using it is a crime (Delphi libs always work because they are
upwards compatible)
- GUI design
- deploying an application
cheers,
Stef
Ciao
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