> I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments
> in Python, moments where you suddenly realise that some task
> which seemed like it would be hard work was easy with Python.
I had a project in the faculty where we were supposed to implement a compiler
for a very simple language (no functions, etc).
I was responsible for implementing the compiler itself & another colleage was
responsible for making an editor for the language - a bonus feature. I was
still learning Python & my colleage only heard about it. I implemented the
language completely within 4 days. My colleage learnt Python & Tkinter and made
a text editor with syntax highlighting & auto-indentation in 3 days. We
implemented all the bonus features while other groups was still fighting with
lex & yacc just to get it to *run* right. We were the highest ranked group :)
The next year, the teaching assistant refused that any project be done in
Python because it is so easy :(
Part of the productivity boos came from pyggy, a very simple yet powerful
parser generator that made writing the compiler clear as exactly as our course
note said :)
Mohammad Tayseer
http://spellcoder.com/blogs/tayseer
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