On 11 April 2017 at 23:45, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2017-04-11 21:58, Mikhail V wrote: >> >> On 11 April 2017 at 16:56, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 07:56 pm, Brecht Machiels wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> DropBox and >>>> Google seem to agree that there are no good solutions, since they are >>>> moving to Go. >>> >>> >>> That's a good solution! Maybe we should be writing extensions in Go, >>> instead >>> of C. Or for maths-heavy work, using extensions written in Julia. >> >> >> Just my curiosity, I've always been intersted in such question: are devs >> still writing extensions in C, I mean type in C code? Aren't they using >> some translator or IDE which at lest hides the brackets and semicolons? >> I personally don't have problems with understanding low-level >> concepts of programming, but I find it pretty hard to see >> through the mangroves of brackets, asterisks and Co. >> > The regex module does the matching using code written in C.
That is tough... I feel like a sissy with my humanistic readability ideas. And those monospaced, green-on-black texts... (not trolling, I just have have rich imagination) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list