Tuesday, January 30. 2007
Time to change languages
If you're starting to end sentences with semicolons try Python. 
My new primary language. I have a draft saved at the moment about my transition to Python. Short story: I'm loving it. Stay tuned.
My new primary language. I have a draft saved at the moment about my transition to Python. Short story: I'm loving it. Stay tuned.
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I've been investigating learning both Python and Ruby, particularly Rails and Django (http://www.djangoproject.com/). Rails feels more solid and established, but Django really appeals to me because it addresses exactly the same problems I face at work; it was written by a newspaper for a newspaper. See also http://www.ellingtoncms.com/.
Django is a good one, and you're right: designed for/by a newspaper. I've been investigating both Turbogears and Pylons as of late. The main attraction to Python, besides its clean syntax, and it just "making sense," was the strong library support it has. Ruby is a good language, and it's libraries are growing, but not yet to the point of Python. As since I've started learning Python, I've heard that the creator of Ruby has described his intentions with the language as "Perl-ifying Lisp," [See this post: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/179642 by Yukihiro Matsumoto (aka Matz, the creator of Ruby)] I'm really glad I've stayed away. Of course, more detail in my upcoming "migration to Python" post.
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