On 9/11/07, Jaap Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I thought about this a bit more, and now I'm starting to think > > it's not going to be *too* bad. There's a lot of existing C code out > > there that uses the Python C API, and I doubt that python 3000 is > > going to totally break all that code. The python developers surely > > know that that existing codebase is one of python's strengths as a > > "real language". Also I read somewhere that python 3000 is not being > > rewritten from scratch, it's based on the 2.x code. > > > > Yes, be warned: > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html > > Reinvinting your _own_ wheel is bad!
That's an excellent article -- many thanks for posting. It's amazing the extent to which I agree with it. I remember at one point a few years ago coming to the very strong realization that code that works well and is readable is -- in some sense -- "like gold", and should be valued and treated as such. That perhaps says a lot about the design of Sage: use Python because it is *readable*, and use libraries like NTL and GSL because they work and work well. > > But who knows.... I guess we'll find out in the next few years. That's my perspective on this issue. Since SAGE packages so many other very very sophisticated Python packages, it doesn't make sense to try to move to Python 3000 support in any way now. We'll end up wasting a lot of effort... E.g., I once spent a lot of time trying to get matplotlib to work with Python 2.5 when it first came out, and almost had it -- a day later an official version appeared in which a matplotlib developer did all I had done plus more (and much better than I did it). -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
