Help: Python for a big commercial project?

Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters mertz at gnosis.cx
Thu Apr 11 14:13:32 EDT 2002


claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) wrote previously:
|Python style result in code which is more maintainable, only
|a fraction as large in lines-of-source-code, and, remarkably,
|at least as fast as the hand-coded C.  Why and how this latter
|is possible have been explained here often in the past; I'll
|abbreviate the details by just saying that Python's run-time
|library is itself written in C

The other important aspect is the motto/mantra that all Pythonistas[*]
should repeat to them upon waking in the morning:  "Tim Peters is
smarter than I am."

Yours, Lulu...

[*] Nope! There is not an off-by-one error here.

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