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Do you hate scripting languages in general? Maybe you should compare python with other scripting languages.
by l4u 16y ago
Do you hate scripting languages in general?
Maybe you should compare python with other scripting languages.
- paulgrahamsmom 16y agoMaybe you should use lisp, like my boy says to
- thedigitalengel 16y agoI don't have much experience with scripting languages - I've only written some bash scripts to automate stuff (other than Python, of course). Unless, of course, Brainf*ck counts as a "scripting language". :D
- squidsoup 16y agoI really dislike the term "scripting languages". While you could describe Python and Ruby this way, it does them a huge disservice, implying that they aren't capable of large scale application development. I think this term should really be reserved for Bash et al.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoI read "scripting language" as a legitimate warning about tradeoffs that make it unsuitable for high-volume use, because the code is permitted to change so much runtime behavior that most known optimizations (and other kinds of static analysis!) are ruled out. For example, Twitter's Ruby to Scala migration made news, so there's value in being able to broadly say what's different between those kinds of languages.