There Is Nothing Python Cannot Do

In about 7 hours of rapid downhill TestDrivenDevelopment, I applied ExtractAlgorithmRefactor to port a packed binary data file reader from ANSI-C to PythonLanguage. It extracts and corrects the endianness for 4 record types, including trace data stored as small deltas. Then I tossed in a viewer to show these traces as charts. The original was >1,000 lines of CeeLanguage, plus all the support stuff like reinvented dynamic arrays. My result was <200 lines of source and ~300 of test. Python rules. (But I could'a done it in RubyLanguage at the same rate.) -- PhlIp

Continuing the visual language advocacy:

(Seen on the weblog of Joey "the happiest geek on earth" de V, nominally http://www.kode-fu.com/geek/ -- Doug L.)

BrokenLink; I am now hosting it in some old scrap webspace of my own, since I thought it was quite amusing.

I had some difficulty making it work :/ Try now: http://jove.prohosting.com/~zahlman/cpp.html

-- KarlKnechtel

PythonLanguage cannot yet convert a BadProgrammer MicrosoftSlave. He needs a VbClassic alternative that has a good alternative amongst PythonGuiBuilders, trouble free (meaning ItJustWorks) ActivexDataObject integration, and interface to BerkeleyDbXml. -- DavidLiu

Please post response to challenge to PythonXml

While it's true that Python can't correct bad programming, there is an incredibly good book about Python which helps even wayward DelphiLanguage programmers such as myself get it: Dive Into Python written by MarkPilgrim -- MikeWarot

Compare: ThereIsNothingPerlCannotDo, ThereIsNothingIntercalCannotDo