Re: GO vs Python

From	Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: GO vs Python
Date	2014-08-25 21:21 -0400
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID	<roy-3B7AE2.21205925082014@news.panix.com> (permalink)
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In article <cb2aff1b-c091-48b5-90f5-d82c6060b148@googlegroups.com>,
 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!!

Well, not my mail client.  My NNTP client.  I'm running a hideously 
outdated client (MT-Newswatcher) because I love the U/I.  Unfortunately, 
it's pretty braindead in the unicode department.

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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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