Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-20 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: geremy condradebat...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnitaorasn...@gmail.com wrote: snip Would it be hard to introduce the possibility of adding encryption of the bytecode similar to what the Zend encoder does

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10: aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough? Can they be easily decompiled? Yes. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10: aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough? Can they be easily decompiled? Yes. Stefan Would it be hard to introduce the possibility of adding encryption of the bytecode similar to what

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 11:31: From: Stefan Behnel Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10: aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough? Can they be easily decompiled? Yes. FYI, just take a look at the 'dis' module. There are also decompilers available. IIRC, one is

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread geremy condra
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10: aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough? Can they be easily decompiled? Yes. Stefan Would it be hard to

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-19, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be hard to introduce the possibility of adding encryption of the bytecode similar to what the Zend encoder does for PHP or Filter::Crypto for Perl? The

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Tim Delaney
On 20 January 2011 06:16, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2011-01-19, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be hard to introduce the possibility of adding encryption of the bytecode

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: geremy condra debat...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de Octavian Rasnita, 19.01.2011 07:10: aren't the Pyton bytecode-compiled files considered secure enough? Can they be easily decompiled?

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
Tim Harig, 18.01.2011 12:37: On 2011-01-18, Stefan Behnel wrote: Tim Harig, 17.01.2011 20:41: I prefer a single language as opposed to a creolization of two. With the possible exception of Lisp, I find it hard to think of a language that's still alive and not the creolisation of (at least)

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-18, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:41:54 +, Tim Harig wrote: One of the arguments for Python has always made is that you can optimize it by writing the most important parts in C. Perhaps that is a crutch that has held the

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-18, Stefan Behnel stefan...@behnel.de wrote: Tim Harig, 17.01.2011 20:41: One of the arguments for Python has always made is that you can optimize it by writing the most important parts in C. Perhaps that is a crutch that has held the communty back from seeking higher performance

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Rui Maciel
Tim Harig wrote: You still don't see many companies doing large scale internal development using Python and you definately don't see any doing external developement using a language that gives the customers full access to the source code. What you refered as full access to the source code

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-18, Rui Maciel rui.mac...@gmail.com wrote: Tim Harig wrote: You still don't see many companies doing large scale internal development using Python and you definately don't see any doing external developement using a language that gives the customers full access to the source code.

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread geremy condra
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: Go is not an ideal language for high-performance code. Despite the occasional claims of others, Go is consistently outperformed by C, C++, and Java on a wide variety of benchmarks. Some claim that Ada and Haskell do as well,

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Terry Reedy
On 1/18/2011 10:30 AM, Tim Harig wrote: Whether or not you actually agree with that economic reality is irrelevant. Those who fund commerical projects do; and, any developement tool which violates the security of the source is going to find itself climbing an uphill battle in trying to gain

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-18, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: I really question that you get Java anywhere even close to C performance. Google reports they get within the same order of magnitude as C for their long-lived server

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread geremy condra
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: Even assuming that PyPy does actually manage to reach within a magnitude of C with the extra effort required to leverage two languages, why would I bother when I can do it with one?  PyPy and similar methods where great when

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-18, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 1/18/2011 10:30 AM, Tim Harig wrote: Whether or not you actually agree with that economic reality is irrelevant. Those who fund commerical projects do; and, any developement tool which violates the security of the source is going to find

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-18, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: Even assuming that PyPy does actually manage to reach within a magnitude of C with the extra effort required to leverage two languages, why would I bother when I can do

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Zach
Cobra seems to similar to python. Or it at least compares itself to python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Zach
Anyone have thoughts on Cobra? On Jan 18, 2011 4:20 PM, Zach taylo...@gmail.com wrote: Cobra seems to similar to python. Or it at least compares itself to python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-18 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net On 2011-01-18, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 1/18/2011 10:30 AM, Tim Harig wrote: Whether or not you actually agree with that economic reality is irrelevant. Those who fund commerical projects do; and, any developement tool which violates the

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-16, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-16, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: If the author thinks that Go is a tried and true (his words, not mine) language where

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:12:04 +, Tim Harig wrote: Python has been widely used by people like us that happen to like the language and found ways to use it in our workplaces; but, most of the time it is an unofficial use that the company. You still don't see many companies doing large scale

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-16, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: snip Personally, I think the time is ripe for a language that bridges the gap between ease of use

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-17, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:12:04 +, Tim Harig wrote: Python has been widely used by people like us that happen to like the language and found ways to use it in our workplaces; but, most of the time it is an unofficial

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-17, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-16, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: snip Personally, I think the time is ripe for a

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Stefan Behnel
Tim Harig, 17.01.2011 13:25: If I didn't think Python was a good language, I wouldn't be here. Nevertheless, it isn't a good fit for many pieces of software where a systems language is better suited. Reasons include ease of distribution without an interpeter, non-necessity of distributing

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread geremy condra
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-16, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-16, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: If the author thinks that

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Tim Harig
In comp.lang.python, you wrote: Tim Harig, 17.01.2011 13:25: If I didn't think Python was a good language, I wouldn't be here. Nevertheless, it isn't a good fit for many pieces of software where a systems language is better suited. Reasons include ease of distribution without an interpeter,

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-17, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-16, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't say Go is narrowly targeted.  It's a systems language that can compete in the same domain with scripting

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread geremy condra
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-17, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-16, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't say Go is narrowly targeted.  It's

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-17, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-17, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-16, geremy condra

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:41:54 +, Tim Harig wrote: One of the arguments for Python has always made is that you can optimize it by writing the most important parts in C. Perhaps that is a crutch that has held the communty back from seeking higher performance solutions in the language

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-17 Thread Stefan Behnel
Tim Harig, 17.01.2011 20:41: In comp.lang.python, I wrote: Tim Harig, 17.01.2011 13:25: If I didn't think Python was a good language, I wouldn't be here. Nevertheless, it isn't a good fit for many pieces of software where a systems language is better suited. Reasons include ease of

[OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-16 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-16, Paul Rubin no.email@nospam.invalid wrote: Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net writes: Those who are concerned about performance should check out Go. Garbage collection, duck typing, and compiles to a native binary. It creates a great middle ground between C++ and Python. Any C and/or

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:47:35 +, Tim Harig wrote: One of the things that gives me hope for Go is that it is backed by Google so I expect that it may gain some rather rapid adoption. It has made enough of a wake to grab one of Eweek's 18 top languages for 2011. If the author thinks that

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-16 Thread Tim Harig
On 2011-01-16, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:47:35 +, Tim Harig wrote: One of the things that gives me hope for Go is that it is backed by Google so I expect that it may gain some rather rapid adoption. It has made enough of a wake to

Re: Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-16 Thread rantingrick
On Jan 16, 5:03 am, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: Personally, I think the time is ripe for a language that bridges the gap between ease of use dynamic languages with the performance and distribution capabilities of a full systems level language.   Bravo! This is after all the promise

Re: [OT] Python like lanugages [was Re: After C++, what with Python?]

2011-01-16 Thread geremy condra
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote: On 2011-01-16, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: If the author thinks that Go is a tried and true (his words, not mine) language where programmers can go to look for work, I think he's fooling