Re: Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing [was: Re: Python Success stories]

2008-05-20 Thread greg
Someone wrote: I'm just curious whether this argument against dynamic typing - that you end up doing the job of a static compiler in test code - holds in practice. I suspect that, although some of the things caught by the tests would be caught by static typing, the very *same* tests are also

Re: Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing [was: Re: Python Success stories]

2008-04-30 Thread cokofreedom
A rather off-topic and perhaps naive question, but isn't a 1:4 production/test ratio a bit too much ? Is there a guesstimate of what percentage of this test code tests for things that you would get for free in a statically typed language ? I'm just curious whether this argument against

Re: Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing [was: Re: Python Success stories]

2008-04-30 Thread MRAB
On Apr 30, 10:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A rather off-topic and perhaps naive question, but isn't a 1:4 production/test ratio a bit too much ? Is there a guesstimate of what percentage of this test code tests for things that you would get for free in a statically typed language ? I'm

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-29 Thread Fuzzyman
On Apr 22, 11:25 am, azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to

Code/test ratio wrt static vs dynamic typing [was: Re: Python Success stories]

2008-04-29 Thread George Sakkis
On Apr 29, 2:25 pm, Fuzzyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are around 30 000 lines of Python in the production code and about 120 000 lines of Python code in the test framework. A rather off-topic and perhaps naive question, but isn't a 1:4 production/test ratio a bit too much ? Is there a

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-25 Thread Bob Woodham
On 2008-04-24, AlFire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Woodham wrote: x = x++; has unspecified behaviour in C. what about C++ To the extent that (historically) C++ was a superset of C, it was true of C++ as well. However, I haven't kept pace with the C++ standardization process. C++ now

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-25 Thread Bob Woodham
On 2008-04-24, Istvan Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 23, 2:08 pm, Bob Woodham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: x = x++; has unspecified behaviour in C. That is, it is not specified whether the value of x after execution of the statement is the old value of x or one plus the old value of x.

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-25 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which big aplications are written in python. YouTube -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Why is this newsgroup different from all other newsgroups? --

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Mark Wooding
Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because Python doesn't follow the boxed variables model. Be careful here. `Boxed types' or `boxed objects' is a technical term essentially meaning `heap-allocated objects, probably with reference semantics', which Python most definitely does use --

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Philipp Pagel
azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. There is only one sane way to deal with this situation: You need a common enemy. Java comes to mind ;-) cu Philipp -- Dr. Philipp Pagel Lehrstuhl f.

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Paul Boddie
On 23 Apr, 11:12, Mark Wooding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because Python doesn't follow the boxed variables model. Be careful here. `Boxed types' or `boxed objects' is a technical term essentially meaning `heap-allocated objects, probably with

RE: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Reedick, Andrew
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of azrael Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:26 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Python Success stories Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Cristina Yenyxe González García
2008/4/23, Reedick, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED]: IIRC, Python is used in games like Eve Online (SciFi MMO) and Vampire: Bloodlines (RPG.) Years later, a dedicated fan is still fixing/updating the Bloodlines python scripts that control the dialogue and scripted events. Now that you mention

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread cokofreedom
Civilisation 4 uses Python everywhere and is the main tool used by Modders of the game. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Bob Woodham
On 2008-04-22, Paul Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 22, 5:50 pm, Jérémy Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. Python is more readable than Perl, though I have found Python to have a weird behavior regarding this little issue : How can you explain that Python doesn't support the ++

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread AlFire
Cristina Yenyxe González García wrote: 2008/4/23, Reedick, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED]: IIRC, Python is used in games like Eve Online (SciFi MMO) and Vampire: Bloodlines (RPG.) Years later, a dedicated fan is still fixing/updating the Bloodlines python scripts that control the dialogue and

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Jon Ribbens
On 2008-04-23, Mark Wooding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Python is actually one of the few to define one but not the other. (The other one I can think of is Acorn's BBC BASIC, for whatever that's worth; it too lacks `++'.) You should've added it in Termite Basic then :-p --

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread AlFire
Bob Woodham wrote: x = x++; has unspecified behaviour in C. what about C++ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Istvan Albert
On Apr 23, 2:08 pm, Bob Woodham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: x = x++; has unspecified behaviour in C. That is, it is not specified whether the value of x after execution of the statement is the old value of x or one plus the old value of x. unspecified means that the result could be anything:

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-23 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:43:56 -0300, Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On 23 Apr, 11:12, Mark Wooding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabriel Genellina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because Python doesn't follow the boxed variables model. Be careful here. `Boxed types' or `boxed objects' is a

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
azrael schrieb: Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to program in VisualBasic This hurts. Please

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Marco Mariani
azrael wrote: Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to program in VisualBasic This hurts. Please give me informations about realy famous aplications. He's joking. Perl is a dysfunctional language and

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Max M
azrael skrev: Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to program in VisualBasic When I started writing in Python in the nineties there was a lot of tech-media coverage of Perl. Python was always

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Wesley Brooks
http://panela.blog-city.com/python_at_google_greg_stein__sdforum.htm Google big enough? ...or look at the companies on the NASA uses Python... ...so does: box on the top (nearly top any how!) right of http://www.python.org/ On 22/04/2008, azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which big aplications

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
azrael a écrit : Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. s/proud/stupid/ Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to program in VisualBasic

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread George Sakkis
On Apr 22, 6:34 am, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: azrael schrieb: Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Carl Banks
On Apr 22, 6:25 am, azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Paul Melis
azrael wrote: Which big aplications are written in python. I see its development, But i can't come up with a big name. I know that there are a lot of companys using python, but is there anythong big written only in python. I want him to fuck of with his perl once and for all time Not really

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Istvan Albert
On Apr 22, 6:25 am, azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. This hurts. Please give me informations about realy famous aplications. you could show him what Master Yoda said when he compared Python to Perl

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread GHUM
Which big aplications are written in python. I see its development, There are no big applications written in Python. Big applications are written in JAVA or COBOL or C# or other legacy programming systems. If you programm in Python, your applications become quite small. Only frameworks in

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:34:48 -0300, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: azrael schrieb: A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python.

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:35:47 -0700 (PDT) GHUM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which big aplications are written in python. I see its development, There are no big applications written in Python. Big applications are written in JAVA or COBOL or C# or other legacy programming systems. If you

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread s0suk3
On Apr 22, 5:25 am, azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Jérémy Wagner
Sure. Python is more readable than Perl, though I have found Python to have a weird behavior regarding this little issue : How can you explain that Python doesn't support the ++ opeator, whereas at the same time it does support the += operator ??? No python developer I know has been able to

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Paul Hankin
On Apr 22, 5:50 pm, Jérémy Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. Python is more readable than Perl, though I have found Python to have a weird behavior regarding this little issue : How can you explain that Python doesn't support the ++ opeator, whereas at the same time it does support the +=

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Carl Banks
On Apr 22, 12:50 pm, Jérémy Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. Python is more readable than Perl, though I have found Python to have a weird behavior regarding this little issue : How can you explain that Python doesn't support the ++ opeator, whereas at the same time it does support the

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:50:54 -0300, Jérémy Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Sure. Python is more readable than Perl, though I have found Python to have a weird behavior regarding this little issue : How can you explain that Python doesn't support the ++ opeator, whereas at the same time it

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Mike Hansen
On Apr 22, 3:25 am, azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Ivan Illarionov
On 22 апр, 14:25, azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] This hurts. Please give me informations about realy famous aplications. What do you mean by really famous? Information is here: http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ Are YouTube and Google famous enough? -- Ivan --

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread dimitri pater
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html 2008/4/22 Ivan Illarionov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 22 апр, 14:25, azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] This hurts. Please give me informations about realy famous aplications. What do you mean by really famous?

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Holden
azrael wrote: Hy guys, A friend of mine i a proud PERL developer which always keeps making jokes on python's cost. Please give me any arguments to cut him down about his commnets like :keep programing i python. maybe, one day, you will be able to program in VisualBasic This hurts. Please give

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Holden
Nikita the Spider wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which big aplications are written in python. I see its development, But i can't come up with a big name. I know that there are a lot of companys using python, but is there anythong big written only in

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Challenge him to a dual with dead kippers at twenty paces. Please, have some dignity! Challenge him to a duel with live kippers. Live, *rabid* kippers. With frickin' laser beams on their heads. -- \ A man's only as old as the woman he feels. --

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Holden
Ben Finney wrote: Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Challenge him to a dual with dead kippers at twenty paces. Please, have some dignity! Challenge him to a duel with live kippers. Live, *rabid* kippers. With frickin' laser beams on their heads. I like your style. Though considering

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Roy Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Challenge him to a dual with dead kippers at twenty paces. You gotta be careful about stuff like this. You might slap him with a dead kipper only to discover he's got a dead camel in his pocket. Of course, there's always

Re: Python Success stories

2008-04-22 Thread Steve Holden
Roy Smith wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Challenge him to a dual with dead kippers at twenty paces. You gotta be careful about stuff like this. You might slap him with a dead kipper only to discover he's got a dead camel in his pocket. Of