OT: Re: using binary in python

Tue Nov 10 17:17:37 EST 2015

On 10/11/2015 21:02, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 2015年11月10日 20:36:52 +0000, mm0fmf via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> declaimed the following:
>>> On 10/11/2015 20:14, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>> The Ada language defines the end of Text file to consist of
>>>> It is 15 years this month since I last worked in place that used Ada. I
>> think that calls for a wee dram to celebrate ;-)
>> 	Given that a dram is 1/8 of a "fluid ounce" that leads to the
> conclusion that a "wee dram" is based on US standard fluid once, vs British
> standard fluid ounce...
>>> 	My language preferences do tend to be the extremes: Python for quick
> throw-away stuff, Ada for more formal stuff (since it has a much more
> rigorous syntax than Pascal, Modula-2, C/C++, Java -- no optional block
> delimiters, no dangling else, etc.)
>> 	Unfortunately, as a hobbyist dabbler at home, I can't justify the time
> to port an Ada compiler to Arduino, TIVA, Propeller, Beaglebone (though the
> latter may just be a case of porting the hardware access). So... I'm stuck
> with variants of C for those devices (again, excluding the Linux based
> Beaglebone)
>
I escaped having to produce new code in Ada, I merely had to run some 
scripts that added the compiled C binaries into the Ada gloop!
C user since 1983, C++ user since 2002, Python and C# since 2010. I 
regularly pinch myself that it seems to be painfully easy to be 
productive using Python compared to the other langauges!