Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-22 Thread Laurent Pointal
Chris Angelico wrote: Heavy computation might be unideal in Python, but if you can grunge it into NumPy operations, that won't be a problem. May take a look to Pythran too, which generate C++ code from (limited subset of) Python code, usable as a Python compiled module or as standalone C++.

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-11 Thread Roy Smith
In article 52f9b6af$0$11128$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:40:48 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 02/08/2014 05:54 PM, Sam wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: Whether I mind shipping my source, or you mind shipping your source isn't really what matters here. What matters is that there *are* people/companies who don't want to expose their source. Perhaps for reasons we don't agree

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Asaf Las roeg...@gmail.com writes: btw, Python could be language of choice for embedded systems if small footprint vm could be developed. had seen similar for java having 10-20 KB byte sized interpreter with very limited set of functions. Well, there's the newish Micro python project. Its

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-02-09, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: Heavy computation might be unideal in Python, but if you can grunge it into NumPy operations, that won't be a problem. While one might thing Python is not suitable for heavy number crunching, it actually gets used for that a lot due to the

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:17:03 +0100, Skybuck Flying wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a healthy bias. To play my own devil's advocate, I have a question. What are the kinds of

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-10 Thread CM
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:43:47 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: PyPy can generate code which is comparable to compiled C in speed. Perhaps you mean, if execution speed is the most important thing, using a naive Python interpreter may not be fast enough. Given that the OP seems to

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-10 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 02/08/2014 05:54 PM, Sam wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a healthy bias. To play my own devil's advocate, I have a question. What are the kinds of software that are not advisable

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-10 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:21 PM, CM cmpyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:43:47 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: PyPy can generate code which is comparable to compiled C in speed. Perhaps you mean, if execution speed is the most important thing, using a naive Python

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-10 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:40:48 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 02/08/2014 05:54 PM, Sam wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a healthy bias. To play my own devil's advocate, I have a

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-10 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 02/10/2014 11:35 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 22:40:48 -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 02/08/2014 05:54 PM, Sam wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a healthy bias. To

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-09 Thread wxjmfauth
Le dimanche 9 février 2014 06:17:03 UTC+1, Skybuck Flying a écrit : However there is more... Python may lack some technical language elements like, call by reference, and perhaps other low level codes, like 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit integers which play a roll with interfacing with

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/02/2014 10:47, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote: Le dimanche 9 février 2014 06:17:03 UTC+1, Skybuck Flying a écrit : However there is more... Python may lack some technical language elements like, call by reference, and perhaps other low level codes, like 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit integers

What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-08 Thread Sam
I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a healthy bias. To play my own devil's advocate, I have a question. What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python? --

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-08 Thread Denis McMahon
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:54:30 -0800, Sam wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a healthy bias. To play my own devil's advocate, I have a question. What are the kinds of software that are

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Sam lightai...@gmail.com wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a healthy bias. To play my own devil's advocate, I have a question. What are the kinds of

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-08 Thread Roy Smith
In article a584b0e9-1995-4189-bfac-d0c5ffc08...@googlegroups.com, Sam lightai...@gmail.com wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a healthy bias. To play my own devil's advocate, I have a

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-08 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:53:00 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: In article a584b0e9-1995-4189-bfac-d0c5ffc08...@googlegroups.com, Sam lightai...@gmail.com wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-08 Thread Michael Torrie
On 02/08/2014 05:11 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Sam lightai...@gmail.com wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a healthy bias. To play my own devil's

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-08 Thread Asaf Las
On Sunday, February 9, 2014 5:43:47 AM UTC+2, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Nevertheless, although security by obscurity is ineffective[1], Python supports it. You can ship only the .pyc files. For added obscurity, you could put the .pyc files in a .zip file and ship that. For even more obscurity,

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/08/2014 05:11 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Sam lightai...@gmail.com wrote: I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-08 Thread Skybuck Flying
I got to know about Python a few months ago and today, I want to develop only using Python because of its code readability. This is not a healthy bias. To play my own devil's advocate, I have a question. What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

Re: What are the kinds of software that are not advisable to be developed using Python?

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Skybuck Flying windows7i...@dreampc2006.com wrote: Anything that needs to be super reliable. My experience so far with Python versus Delphi has shown that Python requires way more time to debug than Delphi. The reason for this is the interpreter versus the