bool and int

[avi.e.gross at gmail.com]

Gerard,

I am sure there is. I have been on many forums that discuss programming
languages and since nothing is perfect and people differ in many ways, there
is always grumbling and comparison.

If we all agreed and there was only one of something, I suspect we still
would complain and that is precisely why there are generally many variations
as others like their own ideas better.

Python remains a quite decent and useful language, warts and especially
imagined warts and all.

Avi

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I can't help but wonder if there exists some Java forum /mailing list going
on about how horrible Python is.

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On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 06:53:44 -0500, 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE wrote:


> They used Java at my last job (as in, the last job I had before I 
> retired), and it was absolutely awful, for any number of reasons, the 
> gymnastics (on many levels) required to support "primitive types" 
> being one of them.

My first brush with Java was around '98 when it was first becoming popular.
To familiarize myself with the AWT I decided to write a simple IDE for the
AVR microcontrollers. What a disaster. The UI wasn't bad but the
instructions for 8-bit processors require a lot of bit fiddling that was
extraordinarily difficult in Java.

Then they came out with Swing and the assumption if the app ran with glacial
slowness you should get a faster machine.

The company I work for has one Java app created around 2000 as a cross
platform solution as people moved to Windows. Originally it ran as an applet
but when that window was slammed shut it became increasingly unwieldy.

For what I'm developing today I used either .NET C# or Python3. The .NET
UI's on Linux aren't quite there yet but back end applications are fine.
PyQt (PySide actually. If there is a way to screw up commercial licensing Qt
will find it) is fine.
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