BCD List to HEX List

Philippe Martin pmartin at snakecard.com
Sun Jul 30 18:48:01 EDT 2006


Paul Rubin wrote:

> Philippe Martin <pmartin at snakecard.com> writes:
>> I'm just using Python to prototype, so I cannot use any of these great
>> features of the language.
> 
> I think when writing a prototype, you should use whatever features you
> want, except maybe at the upper levels of program organization.  The
> idea of prototyping is to get something done quickly, that you can use
> for integration and user testing earlier in the development cycle.  So
> you should use whatever Python features are available to make
> prototyping faster.  You shouldn't expect the prototype code to
> closely match the final C code, if that slows you down.  If you want
> code that closely resembles C code, you might as well write in C
> directly.


Some truth in that.

Thanks,

Philippe




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