So Uh, Who here still remembers Python?

[Seito4Counter]

# Amazing quick
def expandtab(str,tab=8):
return reduce(lambda a,b:
a + ' '*(tab-len(a)%tab) + b,
str.split('\t')
)


I do.

 

[xAkirax2004]

The hell?

 

[Super-Supra]

I think it's something to do with HTML or some sort of scripting language...

 

[Solid Fro]

Python, the programming language?

 

[emad]

people still use it. Have you heard of Eve Online? they based it heavily around python to take care of databases and such. It's a much better language to teach people with than VB but yet not too difficult like c or java.

 

[Solid Fro]

EVE Online, the game? Eh, it was kind of cool, for 10 minutes. It had pretty graphics though.

These two nerds in my computer class last year rambled about Python being 'cool' but, never really explained why.

 

[Seito4Counter]

python is 'cool' very 'cool' and people still use it a lot but its less common now. emad.. java isnt difficult.. its about the same as python, and java is a lot faster to work with!! (imo) C is some stuff though.. stupid memory errors.

 

[Sage]

I don't have knowledge of Python myself, but the css-discuss site is run with it.

 

[skip0110]

Originally posted by Seito4Counter
python is 'cool' very 'cool' and people still use it a lot but its less common now. emad.. java isnt difficult.. its about the same as python, and java is a lot faster to work with!! (imo) C is some stuff though.. stupid memory errors.

Java is a wonderful language, getting rid of pointers was the smartest thing the Sun development team did, and I dont miss them at all (even though I switch between C++/Java often). Always when I program in C/C++, I get

Segmentation fault.

Damn those things!

Never used any Python though. I think its heyday may have been a bit before my time.

 

[Seito4Counter]

C/C++ is something i have grown some contempt for. It still is brutally efficient when properly applied, however the mandatory 2-3 hours of debugging is really annoying. I find the languages i use most right now are php and sql.. with a good deal of xml. But with the new .net stuff i have to use a lot of asp, c-sharp, visual c, etc..

 

[the_cobbinator]

Originally posted by Seito4Counter
C/C++ is something i have grown some contempt for. It still is brutally efficient when properly applied, however the mandatory 2-3 hours of debugging is really annoying. ...

I completely agree. The biggest mistake I ever made was trying to learn C as my first language. It was so frusterating.