On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 9:59:22 AM UTC+5:30, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 04Jun2015 20:23, Michael Torrie wrote: > >On 06/04/2015 05:04 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > >> On 04Jun2015 13:09, Michael Torrie wrote: > >>> Why not use Python for what it's good for and say pipe the results of > >>> find into your python script? Reinventing find poorly isn't going to > >>> buy you anything. > >> > >> And several others made similar disparaging remarks. I think you're all > >> missing > >> some of the point of Cecil's approach. > > > >I take your point. However I was not intending to make a disparaging > >remark and certainly didn't expect my post to be taken that way. > > And I should apologise for suggesting you were being disparaging to Cecil as > such. I simply felt that these comments (don't bother reinventing the wheel, > in > various forms) gave a discouraging tone. > > >I've > >been down this road before (doing shell scripting things in Python), and > >it works pretty well for many things. Was just sharing my experience is > >all. > >I don't mean to discourage exploration for exploration's sake. By all > >means have fun. Python certainly is a fun language.
Chuck Moore the inventor of Forth and considered an all-time great among programmers is in the opposite camp from the modern fad for "reuse done reinvent" Cant find an original reference. Here is a quote: | Chuck's philosophy is all about getting rid of everything that is not | absolutely necessary for the task at hand, paring both the problem and | solution down to the minimum. Compare this with the instinct that most | programmers have to generalize every problem and abstract code into | "reusable" modules, whether or not that code is ever actually reused. Chuck | might say that the best way to write maintainable code is to keep the | codebase small enough that it can be rewritten when the requirements change. | To program in Forth you have to fight against instincts drawn in from other languages. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4623770 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
