Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/07/07/19:29:14
On Jul 7, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On 07/07/2015 06:32 PM, John Doty wrote:
>> The international language of science 200 years ago was Latin. This wasn’t because it had any great virtue. It was a historical accident.
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>> Similarly, we are having this discussion in English. Another historical accident. This is hardly a perfect choice, but other choice would exclude more people than English does.
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>> For common effort, you choose the common language. Once, in technical computing, this was Fortran, Back a few decades I wrote a lot of Fortran although it was not my favorite language. I was, however, building on other people’s work, and they on mine: Fortran was the only sensible choice.
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>> What is it these days? Well, I know a lot of people who use a lot of different languages, but the one that a majority can use effectively is Python. People who prefer obscure languages like IDL can also use Python. People who prefer C++ can do it, too. Heck, even people who think Clojure is the greatest ever language for the cool people can get work done in Python.
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> Sounds to me like...you like Python.
Not especially. I hardly ever use it for work that isn’t collaboration with somebody else. I prefer AWK for simple stuff, Mathematica for hairy stuff, C for low level, LSE (obscure Forth dialect) for scripting (especially embedded). But I won’t push any of those for geda-gaf scripting.
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> There are a lot of people who don’t.
I think you’ll find that true of every programming language. Not a good discriminant.
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> -Dave
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> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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