and java ? lol, but thanks burger for this info, I think it's the first mail on this thread objective enough.
KKRT On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:28:10 -0400, Philippe Khalaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Python -> faster developpement time > C/Glib -> better performance > > Writing it in C/Glib means it will run nearly everywhere (embedded > device or not). In Python it will run much slower. > > The D-Bus bindings are better on Python than GLib, but they are good > enough on GLib that we wrote a whole xmpp connection manager. > > Basically, you want the final implementation to be in C/Glib. Python is > probably better used for a prototype or something that needs to be done > fast. In C you end up with a nice, well designed, clean and fast > library, that can be run anywhere. With python, it always seems a bit > more complicated. > > Regards, > Philippe > > > On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:57:16 +0200 > Sander Hoentjen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:02 -0400, Youness Alaoui wrote: >> > :'( >> > I just looked at some python code.. omg... this is horrible.. how >> could >> > such a language be that popular.. indentation is part of the syntax ? >> omg, >> > the last language I know of that has indentation as part of the >> language >> > is... COBOL... >> COBOL, i think that is from the time computers were still mechanical, >> right? Anyway, if I would write a programming language (yeah, keep on >> dreaming) indentation would be part of the language too. Now with tcl >> (and c, and whatever) everyone has it's own style, and in a large >> project there *should* be one coding style people conform to, but this >> is not always true so you get less readable code. Anything you can do to >> prevent that is nice in my opinion, indentation is a part of that i >> think. >> >> > I'm telling you, it might be better, but if we go that way, I think it >> > won't be 'amsn' anymore... yes, even if we go into 'C mode', it won't >> be >> > the same 'amsn' spirit, but hey, C is closer to our phylosophy than >> > python... at least mine... >> Python is interpreted, like tcl. In that way it seems much closer to our >> philosophy then C. In my opinion interpreted is what got amsn to where >> it is now. >> >> > anyways, choosing the language is part of the design, and it >> shouldn't (of >> > course) be based on our 'feeling', I personally heard SO MUCH about >> > python, and I always hated it without knowing it, but I first saw some >> > python code today, and I think I wasn't that wrong, it's >> 'degueulasse' ... >> > choosing the language will be done in the design part, but my vote >> goes >> > against python, I would say C, I can vote for part of it in Tcl/Tk (a >> mix >> > of languages), I'm against Java, but could also be flexible for java >> > stuff, but python, I'm against it... >> I would vote against C, not only because I don't know it but also what >> my teachers taught me about it (although they might have been slightly >> biased since one of the students of that school was later one of the >> creators of java :P) >> my vote would go to java (but for the free as in speech one) but hey, >> what do i know? >> >> > I just hope my vote will be meaningful and will be taken into >> > consideration (I don't want to be a dictator and refuse the language >> only >> > because I personally don't like it even without knowing it)... >> consider your vote been taken into account :P >> >> DISCLAIMER: I don't know python either, and it might be a shitty >> language or a great one, as like most of the time i am clueless. > > > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel -- KaKaRoTo _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
