A Python IDE idea - looking for input

[Steve Holden]

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> "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in
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> >
> >> The language I would think of using for such a project would be c++
> >> with wxWindows.
> >>
> > Erm, wouldn't Python be a faster alternative? Once the initial
> > implementation was complete you could optimise the really slow bits
> > (if there were any) in C or C++.
> >
>
> I really hate this step. Why cannot python be faster?
> I choose python because it is easier to program with.
> Now if I want to write a good program, I have
> to use 2 languages which is not easier anymore.
>
Presumably "good" == "fast" in your opinion? The "(if there were any)" was
there precisely because my personal experience tends to be with problems for
which Python is currently quite fast enough. If this isn't the case for you,
thenperhaps you ought to think about doing something about it (though I
realise moaning on a news group os much easier :-)

> Interpreter can be made to run fast. Why python cannot?
> Asking people to optimize with C is just an lame excuse.
>
I wasn't asking anybody to do anything. Python will be optimized just as
soon as it's worth somebody's effort to do it. This is the open source
world, wake up. If it isn't fast enough, make it run faster.

> Of couse, python is free (as beer and freedem), so
> it is natural there are no people want to work on
> a faster python at this moment. Still the C excuse sucks.
>
Yup. Free as in "freeloader" if you never put anything back in.

regards
 Steve
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