On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:51 AM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 27, 4:29 pm, neurino <lelli.l...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > In the need for restructuring our daily workflow, i think it might be a > > good idea to ask the Python community and hopefully initiate a thread > > about pros and cons. > > > > We are a small group of people (approx. 10), working separetely on > > their own projects (each employee manages approx. 2-3 projects). We > > deal with high loads of data everyday. > > > > While the processing is accomplished with fortran and C programs mainly > > on three systems (one cluster, two standalone IBM HPCs, 8852 and p770, > > all managed by a grid-Engine), networking, pre/postprocessing, jobs > > queue administration and numerical analysis have been accomplished with > > Perl. > > > > This workflow has been flawless now for at least 15 years. New > > generations of employees have been given Perl scripts and they > > developed the tools further. >
So for 15 years the workflow is flawless, yet you want to throw it all out? I don't understand that > > > > If i think at the actual situation of Perl, i can't see a shiny time > > ahead. Perl 6 is far to be a reliable solution, the CPAN archive is > > slowing down. My idea is to persuade my colleagues to move toward > > Python-based solutions. > So you want to change things but your colleagues don't? > But our concerns are that, in 3-4 years from > > now, the tools we are going to develop must be still scalable, > > mantainable, portable and of high-performance. > > > > > We don't have any solid in-house know-how on Python. We just have to > > start everything from scracth. Where do you see advantages and > > drawbacks in switching from Perl to Python, given the work picture > > above? > > > > Thanks in advance for any opinions you might have. > > Python is a lot easier to read than perl. > Switching is always a con; see > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html > Assuming you have that under your belt > - if python is the way to go, asking on the scipy/numpy and ipython > lists may give you more specific answers. > - And if the 'rewrite-bug' has really got you, remember that if perl > is old, C/Fortran are older. > There are options today for rewriting the whole system, such as > haskell and julia http://julialang.org/ > > WARNING: If the Spolsky warning above for perl->python is X units, > take it 2X for Haskell and 4X for Julia! > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com
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