Pythonic Nirvana - towards a true Object Oriented Environment [visionary rambling, long]
Jacek Generowicz
jacek.generowicz at cern.ch
Tue Jun 29 11:04:03 EDT 2004
Ville Vainio <ville at spammers.com> writes:
> Why do we write simple scripts to do simple things? Why do we
> serialize data to flat text files in order to process them? Everything
> could be so much simpler and immensely more powerful if we operated on
> data *directly* - we should operate on objects, lists, dictionaries,
> functions, not files. We shouldn't write scripts to perform our
> routines - and way too often, we don't even try, because moving the
> data between scripts is too troublesome, involving file formats, argv
> parsing and other tedious stuff.
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