begin quoting Christopher Smith as of Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:16:59PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >begin quoting guy keren as of Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:20:52AM +0300: > >[snip] > >>no all types of applications can assume what you're claiming. there are > >>applications where performance matters a lot. > > > >This is why we try to assign words to different programs. Are we talking > >about systems programming (OS & tools)? Application programming? Business > >programming? Games programming? Computational programming? > > I thought we were talking about a few specific desktop applications.
This thread started with a homily about premature optimization. IIRC, Lan made a comment about using scripting languages for GUIs. He was accused of making rash generalizations. That there's variety where performance matters is true. Using a scripting language -- or just an interpreted language -- for a GUI is Not A Bad Idea. Even in many of those places where performance is king. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
