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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