Re: [Radiance-dev] Python scripts for Radiance

Greg: ​ > > Well, we may need to devise some tests to be sure this is still a > problem, but in the past, Windows would deliver binary files in > 128-byte chunks, meaning that the last chunk might have garbage at the > end of it that was not actually produced by the program that sent it. >

Re: [Radiance-dev] Python scripts for Radiance

Am 2016-03-22 01:34, schrieb Gregory J. Ward: Well, it's still not obvious to me, even after Randoph's explanation (which used different calls). In any case, I was only trying to make the point that Python isn't transparent, either. An unknown language is never immediately transparent

Re: [Radiance-dev] Python scripts for Radiance

I don’t think it’s as awful as that; Python is a widely-known, widely-used, and well-documented language and freely available. I worry more about Perl, because it is so easy to create write-only code in Perl and this becomes a maintenance problem. On the other hand some Unix commands are

Re: [Radiance-dev] Python scripts for Radiance

Real quick: > From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" > Date: March 22, 2016 9:37:46 AM PDT > > Eh, I respectfully disagree, here. Languages like Python and Ruby are > making it easy for meatheads like me to write functional cross-platform > programs that can leverage

Re: [Radiance-dev] Python scripts for Radiance

This is getting good... On 3/22/16, 10:02 AM, "Gregory J. Ward" wrote: > >Thinking on it some more, the main issue I have with Python is probably >the object-oriented structure, which moves it even further from a >command-line interpreter. For me, the main benefit of

Re: [Radiance-dev] Python scripts for Radiance

Removing some stuff to keep things from getting too drawn-out... > From: Georg Mischler > Subject: Re: [Radiance-dev] Python scripts for Radiance > Date: March 22, 2016 4:49:39 AM PDT > > Am 2016-03-22 01:34, schrieb Gregory J. Ward: > ... > Where did you see a

Re: [Radiance-dev] Python scripts for Radiance

Am 2016-03-22 01:34, schrieb Gregory J. Ward: Getting old? That, I am! Hehe, so am I! Seriously, though, what's up with all the double-subscripts on string arrays? Seems you always need string[0][0] to access a word, when I would expect just one subscript unless you want a character.