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On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 09:49 +0200, Gabriel Paubert (paubert AT iram DOT es) d
> 
> Python is great for quick development. But experience here shows that it
> is a disaster for code which needs long term maintenance. Removing
> obsolete functionality is extremely hard, that's something for which
> nothing beats compiled languages.
> 

Indeed that is my observation too, so I will move to compiled Nim soon.

> I once developed a moderately complex algorithm in Python, it was fairly
> slow but I would not have written it that fast in C (I learned both Python 
> and TkInter at the same time so there was a lot to learn). This took one
> month, and then the translation of the code to C (without the GUI) took
> me 2-3 hours. It would have taken me more time to write it only in C.
> 
>     Gabriel

Interesting. That was my feeling when I worked on my toporouter. It was
not easy, and I got the feeling that I would have never managed it when
writing in C from the beginning.