Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-14 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Chris Brat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen a few posts, columns and articles which state that one of the advantages of Python is that code can be developed x times faster than languages such as Insert popular language name here. Does anyone have any comments on that statement from

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-14 Thread Jordan
Just a little something I realized after writing the same program in C++ and python (a simple chat client and server, with one on one and chat room capabilities). I used wxwidgets and wxpython respectively for the GUIs, and they weren't extremely elaborate, just some basic functionality, a few

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-14 Thread Éric Daigneault
Chris Brat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen a few posts, columns and articles which state that one of the advantages of Python is that code can be developed x times faster than languages such as Insert popular language name here. Does anyone have any comments on that statement from

RE: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-14 Thread Delaney, Timothy (Tim)
Éric Daigneault wrote: This being said after a bit of experience in programming, design patterns and other marvels of the modern brains, doing bad code in python requires a conscious effort to do. The bright side is that it gives all the justification to reviewers to smack the offenders

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Chris Brat wrote: I've seen a few posts, columns and articles which state that one of the advantages of Python is that code can be developed x times faster than languages such as Insert popular language name here. Does anyone have any comments on that statement from personal experience?

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-13 Thread Paddy
Chris Brat wrote: I've seen a few posts, columns and articles which state that one of the advantages of Python is that code can be developed x times faster than languages such as Insert popular language name here. Does anyone have any comments on that statement from personal experience?

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-13 Thread Chris Brat
I work full time with Java, but downloaded python about a year ago and started playing. I've used it quite a few times in my working environment. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-13 Thread Harry George
Chris Brat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen a few posts, columns and articles which state that one of the advantages of Python is that code can be developed x times faster than languages such as Insert popular language name here. Does anyone have any comments on that statement from

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-13 Thread Steven Bethard
Chris Brat wrote: I've seen a few posts, columns and articles which state that one of the advantages of Python is that code can be developed x times faster than languages such as Insert popular language name here. Does anyone have any comments on that statement from personal experience? I

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-13 Thread George Sakkis
Steven Bethard wrote: A simple example from document indexing. Using Java Lucene to index some documents, you'd write code something like:: Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer() IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(store_dir, analyzer, true) for (Value value: values) {

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-13 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Oh, the memories... I went down the same road about two years ago, though I didn't know about PyLucene at the time and wrapped in jython the parts of Lucene I used... never bothered to deal with java's verbosity after that. It's a pity that jython resembles abandon-ware these days, when jRuby

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-13 Thread Egon Frerich
Chris Brat schrieb: I've seen a few posts, columns and articles which state that one of the advantages of Python is that code can be developed x times faster than languages such as Insert popular language name here. Does anyone have any comments on that statement from personal experience?

Re: Python development time is faster.

2006-11-13 Thread flit
One thing I really like, is making prototypes on python. Just to test some algorithm or procedure. It is very fast and easy to debug. So after, I make it in c++ (but not too much often, I leave it in python today.) Chris Brat wrote: I've seen a few posts, columns and articles which state that