#! rnews 2218 Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Path: news.xs4all.nl!newsspool.news.xs4all.nl!transit.news.xs4all.nl!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!attws2!ip.att.net!NetNews1!xyzzy!nntp From: Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Boss wants me to program X-Nntp-Posting-Host: cola2.ca.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Lines: 39 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: The Boeing Company References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:53:07 GMT Xref: news.xs4all.nl comp.lang.python:384162
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry George wrote: > > "Adriaan Renting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Both VB and Python are easier to learn as the more powerful > >>languages, the price is that they lack features that make it easier to > >>manage large and complex projects. > > What is a large project, and what is Python missing that C++ and Java > > have for such tasks? > > But C++ and Java have features that *management* likes, thus making it > "easier to manage large projects". (That says nothing about whether > or not it makes it easier to produce quality code, successful > projects, happy customers, large profits, or any such silly > things... just that it's "easier to manage". ;-) > > Less facetiously: I have managed a large Python project or three, and > several large C++ projects (and, thankfully, no large Java projects) > and found Python quite up to the task. In fact, if anything the C++ > projects ended up more in danger of succumbing to the sheer weight of > the code than did the Python projects. But I attribute this more to > the fact that we had evolved to using agile approaches with the Python > projects than to any of those special features either present or > lacking in C++. > > Ultimately, manageability of a project is far and away more about the > people involved and the techniques used than it is about any single > technology involved. > > -Peter That's our experience too (and the reason I asked). I wonder if the OP will respond. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6-6M21 BCA CompArch Design Engineering Phone: (425) 294-4718 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
