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TheMonkey replied

19 October 2006, 22:09
Originally posted by Stan

ruby FTW

God that's a hacked up pile of crap. It's the trendy language!
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Stan replied

19 October 2006, 21:22
ruby FTW
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TheMonkey replied

11 October 2006, 21:47
Originally posted by Joe Black

And what about Eiffel?

Doesn't anyone like it?

No. Doesn't get to the point quick enough.

It's an "academic" language like Pascal and Smalltalk and Lisp.
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Joe Black replied

11 October 2006, 20:33
And what about Eiffel?

Doesn't anyone like it?
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AtW replied

11 October 2006, 20:08
Python is more object oriented than Perl and thus more suitable for proper big OOP apps: probably a mid-way between Java and Perl.
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VectraMan replied

11 October 2006, 19:31
I've dabbled with some Python. It uses indenting to define blocks! And if that's not bad enough in itself, if you set up your editor wrong and mix tabs and whitespace you'll be staring at the screen for hours unable to understand why it isn't doing what you've told it to do.

I don't understand the fuss, it just seems like just another script language with no real advantages (I can see there are advantages in Perl even though I hate it with a vengane). I think I'd rather use Javascript.
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Joe Black replied

11 October 2006, 18:46
Originally posted by TheMonkey

Elegance, power, simplicity.

That's what some people say about Perl.

You probably know my view by now.
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threaded replied

11 October 2006, 17:52
As it so happens I have just left a phython program to run all night doing a little lite web surfing on my behalf. Well, it's JPython so I get the best of both worlds so to speak.

Wonderful for what it does.
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TheMonkey replied

11 October 2006, 16:42
I seeeeeeeee...
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expat replied

11 October 2006, 15:45
Originally posted by TheMonkey

I've just become officially addicted to the Python programming language. Elegance, power, simplicity.

Ah. Then it's dooooomed.
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MrsGoof replied

11 October 2006, 15:26
Originally posted by TheMonkey

Sorry - I must be thick. What is SKA?

Super Killer App

HTH
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TheMonkey replied

11 October 2006, 15:03
Sorry - I must be thick. What is SKA?
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AtW replied

11 October 2006, 11:48
I actually wrote mine for SKA: small and portable and also supports faster non-HTTP protocol on the same socket/port: currently used to supports hundreds of connections on SKA server.
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TheMonkey replied

11 October 2006, 11:40
Originally posted by AtW

I bet you did not actually write a web server, did you?

Yeah i did!. Source:

Code:

import CGIHTTPServer CGIHTTPServer.test()

Well i cheated a bit.
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AtW replied

11 October 2006, 11:24
I bet you did not actually write a web server, did you?
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