On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 7:41 AM, <sohcahto...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's funny...when I first started using Python, I hated it because it held > your hand and made everything too easy. I was a major C, C++ and Java > fanatic. Now, I LOVE Python because it holds your hand and makes everything > so easy. >
Exactly. > I still like C and C++, but have basically learned that each language has > it's place. I wouldn't try to write a AAA-quality game in Python, just like > I wouldn't write something that should be a simple 50-line Python script in > C++. > And you'd be amazed at how many of the things people say "oh, you can't do *that* in Python" can actually be done 99% in Python and 1% in some other language - often with the 1% being a standard library. Sure, Python's arithmetic operations aren't fast enough to do heavy computational work in - but what if you just deploy numpy and let Fortran do the heavy lifting? You can write your application logic in Python, and get the performance of Fortran. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
