Why Python is Important for You

Re:Why Python is Important for You by craigyk on Saturday February 11, 2012 @10:55PM (#3581056)

As someone with lots of Python experience, having used CoffeeScript/JS for ~three months makes Python looks somewhat old fashioned when I switch back. If Coffee/JS had some way of overloading array access operations, and maybe a numpy equivalent, I don't think I would have any reason to go back to Python. It's also just so much faster than CPython...

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Re:Why Python is Important for You by attractivechaos on Sunday February 12, 2012 @09:10AM (#3581804)

I actually quite like Javascript, especially for its speed. However, the major obstacle to me is that JS is locked in web development. It even does not have a standardized module to read files line by line, let alone other system-level stuffs. One of the (small) reasons that python is not used in web browsers is the lack of speed.

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Re:Why Python is Important for You by tikhonj on Sunday February 12, 2012 @02:16AM (#3581317)

The upcoming version of JavaScript--some engines already support this, I think--includes support for "proxies" which basically let you overload both array access (a['b']) and . access (a.b) for an object.

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Re:Why Python is Important for You by reuser on Sunday February 12, 2012 @02:43PM (#3582748)

Please share your data showing that Coffeescript is faster than CPython

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Re:Why Python is Important for You by gtaylor on Saturday February 11, 2012 @11:45PM (#3581123)

Sounds like Apples to Oranges...

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Re:Why Python is Important for You by mistercow on Sunday February 12, 2012 @08:59PM (#3583847)

Yes, but it's an Apple with multiline lambdas vs. an Orange with only single-line lambdas.

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