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From: news at helen.demon.nl (Ilja Heitlager)
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:29:35 +0200
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Subject: Designing Large Systems with Python
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References: <m37lqz0yoa.fsf@solo.david-steuber.com> <372599D6.C156C996@pop.vet.uu.nl>
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Message-ID: <7g4a3l$atk$1@news.worldonline.nl>
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>What I am wondering about is the suitability of Python for specifying,
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>a large system and building a prototype. I have gotten myself rather
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>entrenched in the cowboy style and I would love it if Python supported
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>that for larger systems.
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My first contacts with Python were with JPython. I got interested for it's
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use in unit-testing Java-classes. Now I am building prototypes with C-Python
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and I love it.
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Both the C and Java versions allow me to harden the code and transform the
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Proto to
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production code, if speed is necessary
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To build larger systems you need classes and modules for abstraction and
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reuse.
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To build proto's you need interactive programming and short code-debug
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cycles.
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Need GUI's? MFC or tcl/tk?
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Networking, Parsers, XML, HTML, regex?
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ehh, Python?
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> One other thing. Is the documentation that comes with Python
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> sufficient to gain mastery of the language, or should I consider
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> buying (yet) another book?
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The online-documentation and examples were sufficient for me, but I love
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paper refs and
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everbody should have Programming Python
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