Re: Baby X is bor nagain

On 25/06/2024 23:42, Michael S wrote:

On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:51:31 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
 

On 25/06/2024 17:59, bart wrote:

On 25/06/2024 16:12, David Brown wrote:

On 25/06/2024 17:08, Scott Lurndal wrote:

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BTW since you and DB are both keen on products like Python,

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I have never posted anything about python here, that I recall.
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I use it very infrequently.

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(It seemed to be a big part of that 8Mloc project of yours)
  

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I got the impression that it was just for some scripting and
automation. I'm sure if Python were not available, he could happily
have used Perl, or Lua, or Tcl.  I know that's the case for the
Python code I often have for build automation.
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 I have hard time imagining that anybody could happily use TCL instead
of Python.

Maybe he wouldn't be /happy/ about it (I know I wouldn't!) but for small scripts, you can work in a variety of languages.  Usually all you need are decent file handling, good string support, some high-level data structures (at least lists and hashmaps), and automatic memory handling.

 

(/I/ have other code for PC and server programs that are in Python,
and I don't know of any other languages that would suit my needs and
wants better there.  That's why I chose Python.  But I don't remember
Scott talking about such code in Python.)
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 For just about anything apart from availably of [mostly free] 3rd-party
libraries and/or of ready-made modules, Ruby is as good or better than
Python. But Python was lucky to reach critical mass first. By now,
Python has better docs as well, but that's relatively recent
development.
 

I have only looked briefly at Ruby - for some reason it never really appealed to me.  There was certainly not enough to make it worth learning when I already had Python.  If Python suddenly disappeared, however, then it is certainly a language I'd look into as an alternative.