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From: Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Every opportunity taken (Was: Does anyone know how to configure a  Brother MFC...)
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:30:02 +0100
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On 03/17/2016 01:58 AM, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:38:04 +0100 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Martin Read wrote:
>>
>>> On 15/03/16 07:45, deloptes wrote:
>>>> I see recently more python code written than real C/C++.
>>>
>>> So what? Most programs *shouldn't* be written in C or C++, and I say
>>> this as someone who loves C and C++ and reaches for one of them by
>>> default as the language for solving computing problems. (Unless they
>>> involve substantial quantities of text manipulation, in which case I
>>> reach for Perl because neither C nor C++ have even *remotely*
>>> satisfactory capabilities in that regard.)
>>>
>>> There are specific circumstances in which a low/medium-level systems
>>> programming language like C or C++ is the right choice for
>>> implementing solutions to a computing problem. I submit that *most*
>>> programs are not subject to those circumstances, and thus there are
>>> better languages for implementing most programs.
>>>
>>> Python is probably the right language less often than people use
>>> it, but for most jobs people do with it, C or C++ would be just as
>>> wrong a choice, if not more so.
>>
>> I agree with you more or less, however languages like python or perl
>> open doors to pretend-to-be-programmers. I've seen more often bad
>> python/perl code than c/c++.
>
> C/C++ arrogance at its best! I could maybe understand it if you called
> C# or Java users pretend-to-be-programmers, but Python, and especially
> Perl, really aren't as bad or as threatening as you make them out to be.
>
>> My observations are also that there is always a penalty, even if you
>> compile the script code into binary. So if something has to be robust
>> and fast, one should always prefer c/c++.  But this is really out of
>> topic here.
>
> And if Python or Perl are more suited to the task at hand, by all means
> use them!
>
> P.S. What's wrong with OT? OT is fun!

We got run off the OT list for being OT. :) Ric


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