Re: interpreted languages

Johan,

I tend to agree with your point.

I prefer to use Python as an initial language, a noodling-around
language. One of the things I like most about it is the ease with
which you can re-write critical sections in C, and gradually shift
from an all-Python program to an all-C program. Though in actual fact
you usually never get to an all-C program, because it's just too handy
to keep a bit of Python in the program to use as glue and for
extension purposes, and you don't really need to eliminate it all to
get the performance effects of C code. I can easily imagine core apps
migrating to an all-C or almost-all-C implementation, while relatively
little-used apps can remain all or mostly Python.

Bill
Received on Wed Sep 27 13:44:03 2000