Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kaz Kylheku Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: python.. Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:26:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 22 Message-ID: <20150120112531.359@kylheku.com> References: <0af26812-0c8a-4459-a495-f0097939fe5f@googlegroups.com> <87vbkb51pj.fsf@ixod.org> <20150120111755.364@kylheku.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: X+c6YNb3AaWMPA3YfA4opg.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:5148 On 2015-01-20, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On 2015-01-20, Mok-Kong Shen 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! :)