On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 09:20 -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
BTW, I would move away from the "fast enough" when talking about performance. It's difficult to qualify what is "enough" in marketing terms; also, a selling/winning message can't be seen as taking excuses for any reason. On the other hand, Python never claims to be the fastest language on raw execution performance, but only to be fast; but in this sense, being "fast enough" is the same as being "fast". So, I would never say, "Python allows you to write fast enough code in a short time"; I would say "Python allows you to write fast code in a short time". Leave the "fast enough" out of this, please.
I totally agree. Personally, the first thing I think of when I see "enough" is "640k aught to be enough for anybody" (quote from you-know-who), like you are defining the needs of the user. Promote the strong sides, don't excuse the weak ones. "Fast enough" is not a positive marketing term, it's an excuse for a problem which I fail to see in Python. Hardware cost is way lower than programmer cost - I am convinced that in most cases the total expence is lower for a Python solution compared to an equal performing C, C++, C# or Java solution. -- Eirik Mikkelsen <eirik.mikkelsen@unix.net>