Re: [dev] What is bad with Python

From: Manolo Martínez <manolo_AT_austrohungaro.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 10:18:02 +0100

On 03/04/14 at 07:49am, FRIGN wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:14:05 +0100
> Silvan Jegen <s.jegen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
 
> > My biggest gripe with the language is the absence of static type
> > checking at compile time.

> In some cases, Python is up to 50% slower than well-written C, but to
> be fair, it does the memory-management for you ;).

I am not a programmer, but I write code in scientific modelling. Python
+ Numpy + Scipy (which, I understand, takes care of typing in a
reasonable manner) is plenty fast, and very readable (and writable).

Manolo
Received on Tue Mar 04 2014 - 10:18:02 CET