Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 05:22, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:09:03 -0500
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:04, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:51:23 -0500
> > > Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Of course now step 1 has been replaced with "rewrite in Python". I
> > > still
> > > have Perl coursing through my veins though. The other day I caught myself
> > > trying to upper(s) a string instead of string.upper(). The deciding day
> > > that
>
> > There's an even quicker way, that's even OO:
> > >>> import string
> > >>> s = 'foo'
> > >>> s.upper()
> > 'FOO'
>
> Well, actually, as of 2.1 or so that isn't needed. All the methods from
> string are already applicable to strings. Hence..
>
> > > trying to upper(s) a string instead of string.upper(). The deciding day
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> :)
I'm sorry, but I don't understand your comments.
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