Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-16 Thread rushenaly
Hi everybody, I am an engineer. I am trying to improve my software development abilities. I have started programming with ruby. I like it very much but i want to add something more. According to my previous research i have designed a learning path for myself. It's like something below. 1. Rub

Re: Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-16 Thread rushenaly
Hi again, Dear Andreas I know about GIL in ruby interpreter, they are trying to solve problems because of GIL but it is not so important for me because i like ruby because of its esthetic and it helps me to grasp some programming concepts. As i know it is not so powerful language like java. (Powe

Re: Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-16 Thread rushenaly
Dear Andrew, I think reading "beating the averages" by paul graham before some experience is not a very good decision. :) Thank you Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-16 Thread rushenaly
Dear Aleksa, As you mentioned, using multi cores makes programs more fast and more popular. But what about stackless python? Does it interpret same set of python libraries with Cpython or Does it have a special sub set? Thank you Rusen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-16 Thread rushenaly
Hi again OpenERP and ERP5 was written in python as i know. I really wonder how they do this without threads. I want to see a real time graph at the same time while i am working on the same screen. What is the secret? Thanks Rushen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-19 Thread rushenaly
Thank you for all your answers... I think i am going to pick Java instead of Python... Rushen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-19 Thread rushenaly
Thank you Steve, I really wanted to learn python, but as i said i don't want to make a dead investment. I hope someone can fix these design errors and maybe can write an interpreter in python :) Thank you so much great community... Rushen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-19 Thread rushenaly
Thank you Tim... It is not a search for perfect language. It is a search for a capable language to modern worlds' needs. Rushen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-19 Thread rushenaly
Hi again I really want to imply that i am not in search of a perfect language. Python for programming productivity is a great language but there are some real world facts. Some people want a language that provides great flexibility. A language can provide threads and processes and programmer choos

Re: Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-20 Thread rushenaly
On 20 Şubat, 01:20, Paul Rubin wrote: > I would say, slow execution is a drawback that we put up with in order > to gain benefits of Python programming that are mostly unrelated to > the causes of the slowness.  The slowness itself can be addressed by > technical mea

Re: Will multithreading make python less popular?

2009-02-20 Thread rushenaly
I want to correct my last post where i said that there is not any intend to remove GIL from python. There is an intend actually i wish from a wizard :). On the pypy blog there is an explanation about gil and pypy "Note that multithreading in PyPy is based on a global interpreter lock, as in CPython