On 12/06/2016 09:18 AM, Wildman via Python-list wrote: > It is sad that you consider learning something new to > be worthless. I used the term "worthlessware" in an > economical sense, meaning it has little or no commercial > value. However, from a learning standpoint I consider > it to be priceless.
Well said. Some of us get hung up so much on the proper way to do something that we end up not doing much at all, other than talk about the proper way to do things. I tend to have this problem. While I talked about the proper and theoretical ways of doing agricultural GPS coverage mapping, another person with less formal programming training than I started hacking and you know what? He has a functioning program now that actually works. It's in C# (which I don't love), and it's got rough spots in the code and it's a bit difficult to add certain features to, but he simply went and did and learned as he went. Now he's at the point where he could refactor (and do it quickly) to get the architecture a bit more robust. But the point is I wasted all my time thinking about how I might do it and he just did it. Was very instructive to me. >>> A friend wrote a similar program in Bash script and I have been >>> working on translating it to Python. >> >> Stay with shell script for such tasks. It is never a good idea to >> choose the programming language before closer evaluating the problem. > > You have a right to your opinion but I fail to see what > that has to do with the price of eggs. I picked Python > just because I wanted to learn it not because I had a > particular problem to solve. If your job was to advocate > Python, I would suggest you find another line of work. I appreciate your measured response to what could be seen as an inflammatory post. Sometimes I think it all depends on the purpose for which you do something. In this case it's for fun, so knock yourself out. If you were instead writing this as part of a requirement for some enterprise server process professionally, you'd probably want to stick with Bash rather than shoe-horn Python into a systems programming language and shell-scripting language, which it's not really that good at. I can say this given my professional experience with server shell scripting. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
