Re:Why Dynamic Languages are a Startup's Secret Weapon
by fauigerzigerk on Friday October 02, 2009 @03:13AM
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C# 4 is very interesting. I also like Python a lot and so far I liked it better than C#, but C# is evolving quickly and in the right direction.
In 4 we get the dynamic invocation, multimethods and the equivalent of Python's getattr/setattr (or ruby's method_missing) functionality.
I have ported a small project back from Python to C# 4 and there are very few places left where the Python code is more concise. In some places the C# is much clearer than Python, so it's a bind I would say.
For most of my projects I cannot use Python anyway because it's simply too slow and uses too much memory, so I'm glad that there is a fast statically typed language that I actually start to like.
In 4 we get the dynamic invocation, multimethods and the equivalent of Python's getattr/setattr (or ruby's method_missing) functionality.
I have ported a small project back from Python to C# 4 and there are very few places left where the Python code is more concise. In some places the C# is much clearer than Python, so it's a bind I would say.
For most of my projects I cannot use Python anyway because it's simply too slow and uses too much memory, so I'm glad that there is a fast statically typed language that I actually start to like.