On Thursday 16 February 2006 05:18, you wrote: > It's only a matter of time before high-level programming like this will > take off, IMHO. It still pains me to see someone waste there time with > pre-compilation and syntax soup to write some of the new apps we see. My
Certainly. Especially when interfacing with C, even up to hardware driver level. I haven't used it because mplayer is just better, but I could capture TV through Python after an afternoon of playing with swig. It's the almost-instant reward that I like so much. And the availability of many libs/bindings. > You're right, the more code we get out there the better, especially because > success with python is all about reading and learning (again, my opinion). Yeah. If one thing stands out in my experience that most of the time you're reading docs/doing research. I'd say easily 50%. Then documenting and other things like perhaps some graphics work, including in-code documenting: 20%. Testing and install/build scripts 10%, actual coding 10%, misc trying out stuff/debugging on the py prompt 10%. All the reading seems a waste of time at first but that's normal when you plunge into a new subject. In the end, I feel that kind of "meta-knowledge" is what makes you be faster and better _and_ more open minded to different solutions. David, I added kbtv to the wiki list of apps. Thanks for pointing me to it. Dan _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
