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Re: OT: Why is C so popular?



On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:10:33 +0200
Anders Arnholm <anders@arnholm.nu> wrote:
> One of the main reasons is that Python leaves a loot of the resolving to
> runtime, that means that the code actually has to be run before you can
> see tha actuall typo found at compile time in languanges as C. 

    This is offset by the fact that the code-compile-run cycle is reduced to
code-run.  Furthermore a lot of prototyping of code can be done interactively.
When I run into a situation where I'm not sure exactly how I want to do
something I open another window, fire up Python, import the appropriate
libraries and twiddle with the code until I get a form that works.  Then I
take that and put it back into the main code.

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