Why did no one invent Python before?

Lothar Scholz llothar at web.de
Sat Jun 5 09:15:21 EDT 2004


j_mckitrick at bigfoot.com (j_mckitrick) wrote in message news:<ec6dce8b.0406041450.5d421fad at posting.google.com>...
> > That already happened: the language is called Eiffel.
> > 
> > Checking all pre- and postconditions and invariants on each call was
> > terrible slow when i started my project with a PIV 400 MHz. It was
> > mostly impossible to use on normal size data sets. Now i use a PIV
> > 2800 and give away my product (http://www.ruby-ide.com :-) with all
> > runtime checks enabled. This makes my programming style much much
> > better.
> 
> So you wrote a ruby IDE in Eiffel?
> 
> Which language do you prefer, then?

I prefer to use the right language for each job.



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