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From: Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:21:26 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:28:51 -0300
Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to> gabbled:
>Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 07:31:13 -0000 (UTC)
>> Sebastian <sebastian@here.com.invalid> boring babbled:
>>>In comp.unix.programmer Muttley@dastartdlyhq.org wrote:
>>>> syntax and mashed them together. Its no surprise Perl has been ditched in
>>>> favour of Python just about everywhere for new scripting projects. And
>while
>>>> I hate Pythons meangingful whitespace nonsense, I'd use it in preference
>>>> to Perl any day.
>>>
>>>I think you've identified the one language that Python is better than.
>>
>> Yes, Python does have a lot of cons as a language. But its syntax lets
>> newbies get up to speed quickly and there are a lot of libraries. However its
>
>> dog slow and inefficient and I'm amazed its used as a key language for AI
>> development - not traditionally a newbie coder area - when in that
>application
>> speed really is essential. Yes it generally calls libraries written in C/C++
>> but then why not just write the higher level code in C++ too?
>
>You'd have to give up the REPL, for instance.

Not that big a deal especially if the model takes hours or days to train
anyway.