Python not a Very High-Level Language?
Steve Holden
sholden at bellatlantic.net
Fri Jan 7 07:49:58 EST 2000
srenner at lycosmail.com wrote:
[...]
> As you
> are probably only dimly (if at all) aware, I've been using Python and
> PyOpenGL to test some realtime rendering ideas. At a certain point I
> began to grow increasingly frustrated my lack of control over the many
> layers involved (Python, PyOpenGL, Mesa library, X windows, Linux).
This is called "sitting on the shoulders of giants". If your
alternative
is to produce all this stuff yourself, perhaps your situation might seem
less frustrating. Could be worse: you might have chosen a Windows
platform,
or had no choice of platform at all ...
> Again, Oz looks so cool. And Python is great. Just not C. Or
> anything that reminds me of C.
>
I'm kind of on your side about C, which has always struck me as a
pragmatist's
language. And you're probably right about the reason it's so much used
(though
criticizing Python for being written in it seems unfair: Guido should
have
chosen assembler, maybe? Surely it's the implementation choices which
you
disagree with).
When I'm teaching class I occasionally take a sideswipe at "the evil
empire",
and someone replies "but you've got to use Microsoft stuff, everyone
does".
I wish I could remember where I got the reply I use, which is "In that
case
you should eat sh*t, since six hundred billion flies can't possibly be
wrong".
Good luck with your project!
regards
Steve
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