On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 10:57:39AM -0600, Yama Ploskonka wrote: > On 12/02/2012 08:13 AM, Martin Dengler wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 10:08:07PM -0600, Yama Ploskonka wrote: > >>If it is defunct, can we use binaries finally to optimize and speed > >>up operation > >"Using binaries" is not what needs to be done. "Rewriting each > >activity" (that you want to speed up) is what you're saying needs to > >be done. That's a lot more work than just finding the bottlenecks in > >existing python applications and reducing them. > > [no response]
<shrug> > with lesser importance, my authorities were that C and variants are > faaaaar ahead [...] of anything else [...], as "the language for the > real world" right now [...] I'm surprised to hear otherwise Of course C is the most popular (by lines written, and usefulness as a "desert island language"), and nobody say anything but. > [...] but then there are specialized applications, I agree, and > opinions :-) Specialized applications like a constuctivist learning platform, perhaps? > I quote the Python link: “It’s still a relatively niche skill-set > and demand isn’t astronomical [...]" Your tiobe.com reference categorizes python as a "mainstream language". If you're asking about re-writing major/all Sugar activities, we'd better have more to argue about than that. Martin
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