[Chicago] Python/Mono slapdown [no pycon content]

[Feihong Hsu]

"Really hard to call C functions. This is a killer."
"Useless lambdas."

This guy doesn't have enough experience with Python to be making this
comparison. Besides, it's not an all-or-nothing proposition. You can
mix Python and Mono development using Python.NET.


--- Martin Maney <maney at two14.net> wrote:

> 
> Mortadelo is a GUI tool that allows easy access to [some of] the
> capabilities of Linux's SystemTap - but that's not important. 
> Mortadelo is written in C#, and one of the authors, who has some
> prior
> experience using Python, has taken the time to talk about what he
> likes
> and dislikes about both languages (and, inescapably, their
> libraries,
> low-level bindings, etc.)
> 
>   http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2007-06.html#18
> 
> Having just been looking at SWIG and ctypes, I'm tempted to guess
> that
> he might not be familiar with the latter, but as I know literally
> nothing about how C# handles binding to extenal C code I could be
> mistaken.
> 
> -- 
> The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which
> no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure
> of the holder's lack of rational conviction  -- Bertrand Russell
> 
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