[Tutor] Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file in python

[David Hutto]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> "David Hutto" <smokefloat at gmail.com> wrote
>
>> Somewhat of the fact that python uses C encourages me of that, but I
>> have still been looking into c++ to optimize, because I've used it
>> before, and the more languages I learn the more they feel 'similar',
>> but the same, if you can understand that!
>
> Absolutely! That's why I use 3 languages in my tutor.

And I saw them all right their first!...for the most part


 To try and
> dispel the myth that programming languages are hard to learn.
> Once you can program in one language learning another
> normally takes a few days or even hours. (Becoming fluent
> is another matter! :-)
>
> There are probably only about 5 or 6 basic structures to
> programming languages:
>
> Algol based (Pascal, C, Java, Python etc)
> Lisp based (Lisp, Scheme, clojure etc)
> Prolog based
> Functional( Haskell, ML etc)
> SQL based
> others?...

Could probably go all day about the ones I've either looked at or loved.

>
> --
> Alan Gauld
> Author of the Learn to Program web site
> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
>
>
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