Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Zaki Manian
This is one the few examples of a high profile Perl Project that I am aware of. http://syncwith.us/ US number: +1 650-862-5992 Indian Number:+919945111824 On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: > > I have

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: >  I have observed that language fanaticism is not seen very much >  in the Python world. Experienced Pythonistas seem to be better language > cosmopolitans. This is not meant as a troll or flame, but something which >  I have felt

Re: [BangPypers] Minutes of Saturday BangPypers meeting (11/Oct)

2009-10-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > X-posting to inpycon since the meeting was mostly PyCon related. > > Hello everyone, >   This are the rough minutes of the meeting at ThoughtWorks on 11/Oct Forgot one more more point which is to schedule a regular BangPypers meeting the

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > wrote: > >[..] > > The fact is that real good hackers don't care about the language they > use, > > but in the quality of the code they write in that language. [..] > > A good

[BangPypers] Minutes of Saturday BangPypers meeting (11/Oct)

2009-10-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
X-posting to inpycon since the meeting was mostly PyCon related. Hello everyone, This are the rough minutes of the meeting at ThoughtWorks on 11/Oct Apart from the technical tidbits, we mostly discussed the conference and related matters. Items discussed - Send a mail using the site bulkmailer

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: >[..] >  The fact is that real good hackers don't care about the language they use, >  but in the quality of the code they write in that language. [..] A good hacker given a choice of languages would select one of them for his use.

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 12:41:31 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Abhishek Mishra > wrote: > > > Well I don't know about power and job prospects, but I remember > > > reading ESR's 'Why Python' - http://www

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 12:41:31 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > > Well I don't know about power and job prospects, but I remember > > reading ESR's 'Why Python' - http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882 > > before starting to learn it. > >

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 12:17:42 am Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > My own experience with the language is that I have reaped sorry, cannot resist this: REAPPYthon for a better world. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > On the other hand python might be helpful for programming related to > algorithms, computations, web based apps (eg. using django etc.), more > advanced scripting and some amount of financial apps eg. trading desks. > Any Perl programmers h

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Dhananjay Nene wrote: > Select the right programming language for > the job not for the job opportunities. Yeah, but seems like OP is jobless :P Regards Rajeev J Sebastian ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@py

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Dhananjay Nene
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Gopinath R wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It is my pleasure finding this mailing list. I am a Open Source guy. but > not an expert. I m strong in Shell Scripting. I need to learn one more open > source language for excellent job opportunities. > > I am bit confused in

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Abhishek Mishra wrote: > Well I don't know about power and job prospects, but I remember > reading ESR's 'Why Python' - http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882 > before starting to learn it. Probably flame bait but does anyone take ESR seriously these days? --

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Amit Saha
Noufal Ibrahim wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: Is power in any way related to job opportunities? And do power (and job opportunities) have anything to do with choosing which one to learn?[..] With great power, comes great opportunities. Or did I get that wrong? '

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Abhishek Mishra
Well I don't know about power and job prospects, but I remember reading ESR's 'Why Python' - http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882 before starting to learn it. regards, Abhishek ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:06:48 +0530 Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Zaki Manian > wrote:[..] > > Perl style is much more individual.  Perl coders and groups > > tend to develop an idiosyncratic style. Perl can be extremely > > concise("Famous one liner") but also unreadab

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Gopinath R wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It is my pleasure finding this mailing list. I am a Open Source guy. but > not an expert. I m strong in Shell Scripting. I need to learn one more open > source language for excellent job opportunities. > > I am bit confused in

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Zaki Manian wrote:[..] > Perl style is much more individual.  Perl coders and groups tend to develop > an idiosyncratic style. Perl can be extremely concise("Famous one liner") > but also unreadable. I think it's a good idea to atleast be able to read perl. It's

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > Is power in any way related to job opportunities? > > And do power (and job opportunities) have anything to do with choosing which > one to learn?[..] With great power, comes great opportunities. Or did I get that wrong? -- ~noufal http://ni

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Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Yuvi Panda
Is power in any way related to job opportunities? And do power (and job opportunities) have anything to do with choosing which one to learn? On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Gopinath R wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It is my pleasure finding this mailing list. I am a Open Source guy. but > not an ex

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:59 PM, kunalkant sen wrote: > Python may not give you more job opportunity, but it will give you one of > the best job opportunity. > Why do you say that? Curious, that's all. :) Roshan Mathews ___ BangPypers mailing list Bang

Re: [BangPypers] Perl or Python ?

2009-10-13 Thread kunalkant sen
If some one really want to look on jobs based on language expertise. Look these 1) Are India Inc hiring fresher with Perl expertise or Python expertise. 2) Is language is stable/mature 3) Easy to learn and build applications. 4) Demand and supply Gap and many more.. I can say, Companies are hi

Re: [BangPypers] Running multiple versions of python on Fedora

2009-10-13 Thread srid
I do something like this in Ubuntu: 1. sudo apt-get install python2.6 2. sudo apt-get install python3.1 $ python3.1 foo3.py $ python2.6 foo.py You don't have to use separate script for python3. See http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200910/running_the_same_code_on_python_2x_and_3x.html As for instal

Re: [BangPypers] Need a map showing use of Python across the world...

2009-10-13 Thread Anand Balachandran Pillai
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Vishal wrote: > Hi, > I came across this on perlmongers: > http://www.pm.org/groups/map.html > > Does something similar exist for Python > ? > Quick googling returned None. > > This could be a good marketing aid for Python. >

Re: [BangPypers] Python performance inprovements with GCC 4.4...any details

2009-10-13 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Vishal wrote: > Well, what I meant was: Everyone knows its an interpreted language and we > are choosing it for its productivity. Also, since its interpreted, its > performance will not / most probably not match that with compiled > languages...so any news in incre

[BangPypers] Need a map showing use of Python across the world...

2009-10-13 Thread Vishal
Hi, I came across this on perlmongers: http://www.pm.org/groups/map.html Does something similar exist for Python ? This could be a good marketing aid for Python. Thanks and best regards, Vishal Sapre ___ BangPypers ma

Re: [BangPypers] Python performance inprovements with GCC 4.4...any details

2009-10-13 Thread Vishal
Well, what I meant was: Everyone knows its an interpreted language and we are choosing it for its productivity. Also, since its interpreted, its performance will not / most probably not match that with compiled languages...so any news in increase in performance is a giantly welcome thing. Sometimes

Re: [BangPypers] Python performance inprovements with GCC 4.4...any details

2009-10-13 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tuesday 13 Oct 2009 2:55:16 pm Vishal wrote: >> Are there anymore details that can be shared? Interested to know...because >> performance is always one of most sought after metric when choosing an >> interpreted language. > > I thought

Re: [BangPypers] Python performance inprovements with GCC 4.4...any details

2009-10-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 13 Oct 2009 2:55:16 pm Vishal wrote: > Are there anymore details that can be shared? Interested to know...because > performance is always one of most sought after metric when choosing an > interpreted language. I thought it was the least important? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejourn

[BangPypers] Python performance inprovements with GCC 4.4...any details

2009-10-13 Thread Vishal
Hi, In our recent meet, there was a talk about python performance improvements when compiled using gcc 4.4. Are there anymore details that can be shared? Interested to know...because performance is always one of most sought after metric when choosing an interpreted language. Thanks and best regar