which one do you prefer? python with C# or java?

[Tim Johnson]

* Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.pl> [120611 11:18]:
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Yesterday Paid wrote:
> 
> > I'm planning to learn one more language with my python.
> > Someone recommended to do Lisp or Clojure, but I don't think it's a
> > good idea(do you?)
> > So, I consider C# with ironpython or Java with Jython.
> > It's a hard choice...I like Visual studio(because my first lang is VB6
> > so I'm familiar with that)
> > but maybe java would be more useful out of windows.
> > 
> > what do you think?
> 
> If you don't know C yet, I second recommendation to learn it. It is a very 
> 70-tish and 80-tish language, but it is still very relevant if you want to 
> call yourself a programmer (rather than a hobbyist, with all credits due 
> to clever genius hobbyists out there). There are things I would rather do 
> in C than in any other language (like, writing a Python interpreter or 
> Linux kernel - wait, what you say they have been written already?). Also, 
> it gives one a way to handtune the code quite a lot (at expense of time, 
> but this is sometimes acceptable), to the point where next choice is 
> assembly (and results not necessarily better)...
> 
> Later on, since C and C++ share quite a bit, you can gradually include C++ 
> elements into your code, thus writing in a kinda "bettered C" (compiled 
> with C++ compiler), using constructs like "const" to make your programs 
> more correct. And you will learn to not use "new" for variables, which is 
> good thing. However, some C++ constructs include performance penalty, so 
> it is good to not better it too much.
  I concur, I worked in C and C++ for 12 years. I added C++ later in
  my programming life. I don't recommend C++ for single programmers.
  - that is to say - 1 coder for 1 codebase. One can do good enough
  OOP in ansi C believe it or not, I learned to.

  It is interesting to note that most of linux is written in C,
  rather than C++ and is not python as well?
 
> - Common Lisp - "nice industrial standard" (depends on one's preferred 
> definition of "nice", of course, as well as "industrial" and "standard")
  I took a hard look at Common Lisp at one time. I got the
  impression that the "Common Lisp" is not to Lisp what Ansi C is to
  C. 
  
  IOWS, there does remain incompatibilities between different
  Common Lisp implementations.

  Whereas Ansi C is pretty strict as code portability (or was so
  when I was working in it)
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Tim 
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