From: donn at u.washington.edu (Donn Cave)
Date: 27 Apr 1999 15:43:10 GMT
Subject: Python too slow for real world
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roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
|James Logajan <JamesL at Lugoj.Com> wrote:
|> When an SME finds the tool too slow, it would be nice if they could post
|> their problem to a group like this without fear of insult, intended or not.
|
| There was no intent to insult.
|
| The thread was moving in the direction of "my program using regex is too
| slow, and I think the solution would be to move regex into the python core
| to make it faster".  I was just pointing out why that is flawed reasoning.

I didn't read any insult.  You venture into a somewhat sensitive area
when you start making distinctions like ``good programmer'', and I reckon
some criticism is inevitable.  It's going to take a while to come to terms
with this issue (Python for people who don't qualify as expert programmers),
and in this process we need to feel free to speak up without too much fear
of saying something politically incorrect.

	Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington
	donn at u.washington.edu




