X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on fly.srk.fer.hr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=6.3 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=disabled version=3.4.0 Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 20:59:06 +0200 From: "Ivan Stankovic (pokemon AT fly DOT srk DOT fer DOT hr) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] gEDA/gschem still alive? Message-ID: <20150707185906.GA2117@alpha2> References: <1436006726 DOT 677 DOT 13 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <20150706200609 DOT GD24178 AT localhost DOT localdomain> <20150707060409 DOT GB14357 AT localhost DOT localdomain> <1436287952 DOT 678 DOT 26 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <559C0F7E DOT 7010009 AT neurotica DOT com> <20150707183339 DOT GA1817 AT alpha2> <201507071836 DOT t67Ia8s3014717 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201507071836.t67Ia8s3014717@envy.delorie.com> X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23+89 (0255b37be491) (2014-03-12) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 02:36:08PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > I'm also a professional developer and know many other professional > > developers. > > I've at least heard of those languages, but I haven't learned any of > them. So for me, anything other than C/C++/Perl wouldn't take "1/3 > the time" ;-) Well, the "1/3 the time" thing is valid only if you're familiar with both languages, otherwise the comparison does not make much sense. Though, there were a few occasions where I witnessed people familiar with C, but completely new to Python, coding something simple and working in at most 1/2 the time it would take them to do the same in C. -- Ivan Stankovic, pokemon AT fly DOT srk DOT fer DOT hr "Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm"