[Tutor] Trying to parse a HUGE(1gb) xml file in python

[Alan Gauld]

"David Hutto" <smokefloat at gmail.com> wrote

> Somewhat of the fact that python uses C encourages me of that, but I
> have still been looking into c++ to optimize, because I've used it
> before, and the more languages I learn the more they feel 'similar',
> but the same, if you can understand that!

Absolutely! That's why I use 3 languages in my tutor. To try and
dispel the myth that programming languages are hard to learn.
Once you can program in one language learning another
normally takes a few days or even hours. (Becoming fluent
is another matter! :-)

There are probably only about 5 or 6 basic structures to
programming languages:

Algol based (Pascal, C, Java, Python etc)
Lisp based (Lisp, Scheme, clojure etc)
Prolog based
Functional( Haskell, ML etc)
SQL based
others?...

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/