[openbeos] Re: AW: Re: Innovation: Design and Programming
- From: Charlie Clark <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 22:19:43 +0200
On 2003-04-30 at 22:05:06 [+0200], you wrote:
> It is a general-purpose interpreted programming language, which is used
> as a scripting language by some software, such as Blender
> (www.blender3d.org).
This is a very good description. On modern hardware the distinction between
scripting and application development languages is a bit fuzzy. Python
requires a runtime with a memory footprint of several megabytes and will
generally run slightly slower than anything written in C/C++ but this
criticism applies equally to something like Java which needs a much bigger
runtime. You can develop pretty much anything in Python as long as you
don't a GUI but Bethon makes even this possible by exposing the BeOS API to
Python so it's possible to develop or prototype applications in Python and
then recode parts of them in C/C++ for speed later. This is a very common
pattern for using Python or similar languages (perl, Tcl, Ruby) so it could
be argued that such languages should be part of any good programmer's
arsenal.
Charlie
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