Re: Python Operating System???

2005-01-06 Thread Christopher Koppler
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:12:54 -0800, Carl Banks wrote: > Arich Chanachai wrote: >> But >> then again, if you don't like C++, you probably won't like Java. > They >> can be very different languages, but in my experience, the reasons > why >> one does not like C++ is usually due to a quality/flaw tha

Re: % operation

2005-01-04 Thread Christopher Koppler
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:36:30 +0900, Daewon YOON wrote: > > Python 1.5.2 (#1, Jul 5 2001, 03:02:19) [GCC 2.96 2731 (Red Hat > Linux 7.1 2 on linux-i386 > Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam > >>> x=9 > >>> y=4 > >>> x%y > 1 > >>> for z in range(44): > ... z

Re: How can engineers not understand source-code control?

2005-01-04 Thread Christopher Koppler
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:52:03 +, Mark Carter wrote: > ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation. > ;; If you want to create a file, first visit that file with C-x C-f, > ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer. Now, _where_ have I seen that before? >

Re: Bad Interpreter

2005-01-03 Thread Christopher Koppler
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:24:09 -0800, RajaSrinivasan wrote: > I have seen some previous messages about such a problem. I have this > problem but it is not clear what the solution really was. > > I am running FC2, python 2.3.3 > > the script i have sock.py runs if i say something like : > > python

Re: Python! Is! Truly! Amazing!

2005-01-03 Thread Christopher Koppler
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:05:48 +0200, Ville Vainio wrote: >> "jfj" == jfj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > jfj> There were functional and non-functional programming > jfj> languages (the first being *much* simpler to > jfj> implement). There is a *reason* people chose C over > j

Re: The Industry choice

2004-12-31 Thread Christopher Koppler
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:54:05 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Bulba! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> OK, so what projects and why would you consider Python: >> >> 1. "clearly unsuitable" > > An OS kernel, a high-performance signal processing application like a > video encoder, or maybe a compact embed

Re: The Industry choice

2004-12-31 Thread Christopher Koppler
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 04:03:53 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Christopher Koppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> IMO (and - indubitably limited - experience) in the many cases where it >> *would* be an excellent choice, it *is* most often a matter of politics, >> to have a

Re: The Industry choice

2004-12-31 Thread Christopher Koppler
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:49:44 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Christopher Koppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The moral is, of course, that either the Python community's alpha >> geeks need to get access to controlling interest in a *major* >> company (or to become

Re: The Industry choice

2004-12-31 Thread Christopher Koppler
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:05:47 +0100, Peter Dembinski wrote: > "Thomas Bartkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > >> > What makes such companies to choose Java over dynamic, productive >> > languages like Python? Are there any viable, technical reasons >> > for that? >> >> Are there "viable

Re: The Industry choice

2004-12-31 Thread Christopher Koppler
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 02:13:27 +0100, Bulba! wrote: > On 30 Dec 2004 08:58:36 -0800, "Sridhar R" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > >>What makes such companies to choose Java over dynamic, productive >>languages like Python? Are there any viable, technical reasons for >>that? > > It's the