On 1/15/2011 9:30 PM, Aman wrote:
Hey all, I am a college student, and at college, we did most of the
work in C/C++. I kind of stopped using C when I learned C++ (simply
because C++ seemed a natural/elegant choice to me, and had backward
compatibility with C). I've had a lot of experience with C++.
Recently, I was on the path to learn a new programming language, and
after suggestion of some of my friends and consulting the web, I
chose to proceed with Python. I've finished with core Python and now
I'm going through the various inbuilt packages that Python provides.
I have an inquisitive mind, and while programming, I always want/tend
to make something that is out of the box. It would be great if you
people could guide me as to what to proceed with and how.
If you know C++ well, and have a computer science background.
Python is trivial. Here's what you need to know:
It's a safe dynamically typed imperative object oriented language,
with explicit classes. The language is declaration-free and
block structure is defined by indentation. Threading is supported
but thread concurrency is marginal. The most common implementation is
a naive interpreter with reference counting backed up by a mark
and sweep garbage collector. Performance is about 1/60 of
optimized C code.
That's Python.
John Nagle
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