[ossig] Bruce Eckel interview part 4

["Mukhsein Johari" <mukhsein@email.com>]

A continuation of the python-centric interview. Heh, he's my 'poster boy' for C++/Java -> Python 'conversion'. Resistence is futile. Lower your shields and prepare to be pythonated! :-P

http://www.artima.com/intv/tippingP.html

Excerpt:
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In programming, my experience was that I would think, "Gee, wouldn't it be great to automate this or that," but for me to write a C++ or Java program to do it would take way too much time. As an example, for Thinking in C++ I set up a system that would allow me to automatically extract the code from the book and build a hierarchy of make files. I could go in and type make and it would compile everything, so I could verify that all the code would compile. It took me ten days to write that program in C++. It was a lot of effort and thinking, and I didn't have regular expressions so I had to parse things by hand. In Python, it took me a half a day. I did already understand the problem, but I also added more features when I redid it in Python.
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Regards,
Mukhsein Johari
(Python Zealot)
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