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| From | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: python.. |
| Date | Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:26:36 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2015-01-20, Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:
> On 2015-01-20, Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> wrote:
>> Concerning the last half of your last sentence: The programming effort
>> would IMHO be very much higher than in case a language like Python
>> is employed, noting also that in some practical contexts efficiency
>> isn't a very critical issue.
>
> Even when efficiency is critical, it is rarely (almost never) critical in such
> a way that nearly every line of an application has to be rewritten in
> something else.
>
> (That does occurs when the efficiency is "infinitely bad": the application has
> to run where that language is not available, and for some extraordinary
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> reasons, it is easier to rewrite the application than to port the language
> implementation.)
Or even ordinary reasons: such as, the language in question happens to be
closed source, and no freeware clone exists, or at least none good enough to
support the application.
Don't use that! :)
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