Why I love python.

[Nick Patavalis]

On 2004-08-16, Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:
> Nick Patavalis wrote:
>
>> On 2004-08-13, kosh <kosh at aesaeion.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't want my cell phone to run python, java, ruby, c# etc etc. I
>>> want it to just be a telephone and do that job well.
>>> 
>> 
>> I understand. You want a nice analog cell-phone, with a large rotary
>> dial, and very long cord. Sorry but resistors, capacitors, and diodes
>> can only go that far. For everything else you need large clusters of
>> transistors (integrated-ccircuits they are called by some) and a lot
>> of them need (God forbid!) "software".
>

>
> What I want (and can't seem to find anymore) are mobile phones that fit
> in the hand *comfortably*, have easy-to-use keypads (so the chance of
> hitting the wrong key is minimal), good reception anywhere there's any
> kind of signal, high battery life and usually good SMS support (i.e.
> intelligent look-ahead dictionary).
>

I believe this is not a discussion about cell-phones. Incidentally all
these features are hard to implement without software.

/npat