http://www.fluidinfo.com/terry/2008/06/08/python-looks-great-stays-wet-longer/ ( -or- http://tinyurl.com/6824pn )
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sometimes I think of it like pottery. You grab a lump of wet clay and slap it down on the wheel. Then you try out various ideas to shape whatever it is you’re trying to create. If it doesn’t work, you re- shape it—perhaps from scratch. This isn’t a very accurate analogy, but I do think it’s valid to say that preferring to work with real code in an attempt to understand how best to shape your ideas is a much more physical process than trying to spec everything out sans code. I find I can’t know if code to implement an idea or solve a problem is going to feel right unless I physically play with it in different forms. For me, Python stays wet longer. I can re-shape my code really easily in Python. In other languages I’ve often found myself in a position where a re-design of some aspect involves lots of work. In Python the opposite has been true, and that’s a real pleasure. When you realize you should be doing things differently and it’s just a bit of quick editing to re-organize things, you notice. I might gradually be becoming a better programmer, but I mainly feel that in using Python I simply have better quality clay. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Ed Leafe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
