OT: Code Examples

[Dan Stromberg]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd at mega-nerd.com>wrote:

> Definitely not. As I said I used Python for a number of years
> and ditched it in favour of Ocaml and Haskell.
>
These are all 3 intriguing languages.  I wish I had time to learn OCaML and
Haskell, and I wish one or both of them were near gaining critical mass.  I
suspect it'll take one of them becoming implicitly parallel for that to
happen.

The ease of development and high level language features of
> Python look really good if all you know is C, C++ and Java.
> The big difference Python and those three languages is that
> there are a huge number of classes of bugs which are run time
> errors in Python but compile time errors in C/C++/Java.
>
> I will always chose compile time errors over run time errors.
>
Yes, me too.  But of course, python has pylint, pyflakes and pychecker,
which make short work of what would be compile-time errors in statically
typed languages.  For any serious python programming, I use pylint - often
even on my unit tests, which of course themselves also catch many blunders.
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