-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/18/07 21:33, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > I guess a problem is the lack of definition of 'clean coding'. I don't > consider one-liners as clean code. Terse yes but they lack the visual > flow that I need when I need to revamp code a year later. One-liners > are more of a challenge to do in python since indentation has an impact > on syntax. > > As for which language is best, the answer is none. Any language can > probably do anything, but for any problem one may be easier than > another. It will likely be the one you are more generally good at. I > find sh to be more cryptic than python so I turn to it sooner, which > leads over time to me becoming more and more comfortable with python. > So for problems that are best solved with some disposable code, it comes > down to in which language in which you produce functional code the fastest > and easiest.
While I write lots of bash code, I don't have lots of .sh files hanging around $HOME, but there are lots of .py files. Anything I *know* is one-off I try to do in bash (usually making my xterm very wide!), whereas stuff that I'll be doing repetitively (even if not frequently) gets written in python. > Perhaps the OP can restate his needs and we can help him make a reasoned > choice without it becoming a religious issue. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGx66QS9HxQb37XmcRAlOZAJ4ryFWnomJ2k9797gBuCGqW9mN1LQCcDsLk TF4aIgaKZb+9mE+gPpQOcEE= =HzxP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
