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Re: GO vs Python

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2014-08-25 05:24 -0700
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Subject Re: GO vs Python
From Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>

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On Monday, August 25, 2014 5:36:25 PM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote:
>  Rustom Mody  wrote:

> > Heh! You make it sound that the character model is the most important thing
> > in choosing a language!
> > There are people using Fortran -- with not intention of finding
> > an alternative.

> Different people have different needs.  If I was writing code to do 
> number crunching, 

Precisely:
- Compiled language + fast compilation
- Static binaries -- better (in the sense of more lo-level) than C's default
- Static strongly typed + type-inference
- Interfaces instead of inheritance
- And of course "I want a google-job"

and probably many others can be the deciders for many people

> ... I wouldn't care much if I could only print 7-bit ascii.
> If I was writing code to serve music on the web and had to 
> display artist names like M�tley Cr�e and Beyonc�, I would be more 
> concerned about the character model.

Funny!!
Your mail client seems to be 7-bit ASCII!!

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Re: GO vs Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-25 13:41 +1000
  Re: GO vs Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-25 01:01 -0700
    Re: GO vs Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-25 11:52 +0300
    Re: GO vs Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-25 19:48 +1000
    Re: GO vs Python Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-08-25 08:06 -0400
      Re: GO vs Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-25 05:24 -0700
        Re: GO vs Python Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2014-08-25 08:13 -0600
          Re: GO vs Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-25 17:26 +0300
            Re: GO vs Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-08-25 07:38 -0700
              Re: GO vs Python Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2014-08-25 16:44 +0200
                Re: GO vs Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-25 18:04 +0300
                Re: GO vs Python Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-25 17:40 +0100
        Re: GO vs Python Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> - 2014-08-25 16:32 +0200
        Re: GO vs Python Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-08-25 21:21 -0400

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