Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-09 Thread castironpi
On Sep 8, 9:31 pm, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3 Sep, 18:52, ToPostMustJoinGroup22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I'm coming from a .NET, VB, C background. > > Any suggestions for someone new to the scene like me? > > Welcome! Unfortunately, you probably have a lot of bad habit

[OT] top-posting and quoting (was: Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C)

2008-09-09 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Could you please timh and belindelof learn to quote properly and stop top-posting ? TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-08 Thread timh
Hi What do you mean by a 3% performance hit? And compared to what ? Any performance hit or for that matter a performance improvement would very much dependant on the problem domain , how it maps to the data store and what you are trying to do with it, and your choice of algorithms. T On Sep 9,

Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-08 Thread sturlamolden
On 3 Sep, 18:52, ToPostMustJoinGroup22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm coming from a .NET, VB, C background. > Any suggestions for someone new to the scene like me? Welcome! Unfortunately, you probably have a lot of bad habits to unlearn. Don't use Python like another C, VB or Java. It will ca

Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-08 Thread benlindelof
BigTable looks great! There's a 3% performance hit for these types of databases. However it makes up for it in other ways. "Dive Into Python" seems to suggest there is less busy work, but I am still looking into the GUI components of Python. Say, a grid of 10x10 tiles of PNGs. ___

Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-04 Thread Marco Bizzarri
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The appearance is not an RDBMS, at least, maybe it is, but under the >> surface. > > Not AFAIK, cf: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigTable > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Thanks for

Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-04 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Marco Bizzarri a écrit : On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:52:06 -0700 (PDT), ToPostMustJoinGroup22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: have no preference with MySQL or SQL, stored procedures or ad-h

Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-04 Thread Marco Bizzarri
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:52:06 -0700 (PDT), ToPostMustJoinGroup22 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in > comp.lang.python: > >> have no preference with MySQL or SQL, stored procedures or ad-hoc >> queries. >> >

Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-04 Thread Simon Brunning
2008/9/3 Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > non-relational DBMS (if any such are still in use), There certainly are... >> SO, I'm interested in using my Google App space (free 500MB) to >> develop a quick database application. Using Python. I found "Dive >> Into Python" which I will be

Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-03 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
ToPostMustJoinGroup22 a écrit : I'm coming from a .NET, VB, C background. C was good, and VB was better (with all of its libraries). Than .NET came along and all the libraries you can require are ready to go. I have no preference with MySQL or SQL, stored procedures or ad-hoc queries. SO, I'm

Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-03 Thread Eric Wertman
> Using Python. I found "Dive Into Python" which I will be reading shortly The title of the book is good advice all by itself. Especially with prior programming experience, you'll get started very quickly. What will take longer is the assimilation of some of python's neater and more idiomatic

Re: Coming from .NET and VB and C

2008-09-03 Thread Simon Brunning
2008/9/3 ToPostMustJoinGroup22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Any suggestions for someone new to the scene like me? Welcome! There's a number of resources that you might find useful here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide -- Cheers, Simon B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-li