Alan Gauld wrote:
Apart from trolling the list what do you hope to gain from this post?
Be fair -- there's no evidence that Ashish Gaonker was insincere about
his question or trying to stir up trouble. It is a very common
misapprehension that "language Foo is faster than language Bar", and
On 19/09/11 14:27, Ashish Gaonker wrote:
First, to address the question in your subject line, we need to agree a
definition of "better". In what respect? And by which benchmark?
And who claimed that either one was "better" anyway? No serious
programmer would be likely to make such a vague compa
Mac Ryan wrote:
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:27:12 +1000
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
There are three misunderstandings with that statement.
[snip]
There's also JPype, which claims to give full access to Java
libraries in Python.
Now: this was one of the best write-ups on the subject I read. Concise,
c
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Mac Ryan wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:27:12 +1000
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>
> > There are three misunderstandings with that statement.
> > [snip]
> > There's also JPype, which claims to give full access to Java
> > libraries in Python.
>
> Now: this was one
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:27:12 +1000
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> There are three misunderstandings with that statement.
> [snip]
> There's also JPype, which claims to give full access to Java
> libraries in Python.
Now: this was one of the best write-ups on the subject I read. Concise,
clear, docume
Ashish Gaonker wrote:
My obvious thinking is : Java being compiled language , must be faster then
a interpreted language.
There are three misunderstandings with that statement.
Firstly:
Languages are neither "compiled" or "interpreted". Languages are syntax
and grammar. Implementations ar
Hi Ashish,
On 19 September 2011 14:27, Ashish Gaonker wrote:
> My obvious thinking is : Java being compiled language , must be faster then
> a interpreted language.
>
> I know couple of points : Development time is less + easy to learn + python
> is expressive.
>
> Can you share some more espe
On 2011/09/19 03:27 PM, Ashish Gaonker wrote:
My obvious thinking is : Java being compiled language , must be faster
then a interpreted language.
I know couple of points : Development time is less + easy to learn +
python is expressive.
Can you share some more especially as compared to Jav
My obvious thinking is : Java being compiled language , must be faster then
a interpreted language.
I know couple of points : Development time is less + easy to learn + python
is expressive.
Can you share some more especially as compared to Java / .net (two primarily
used languages in enterpris
