This is the last day of my vacation, and unfortunately, it’s been a cold one. Ever since I got back from Edmonton, it’s consistently been below -15C, with only a one day spike up to -7C. It must be revenge for the last couple of fairly mild winters…
So, instead I caught up on some reading (most of the way through Cryptonomicon now, and working through Code Complete and Learning Python), caught up on some recorded shows and burned more DVDs, and played World of Warcraft a lot. Yes, my life is a never-ending thrill ride…
Hey, you’re allowed to do whatever. It’s your vacation! :-)
What are you thinking of Python? It’s kind of been on the back burner for me. I need to get working on it again.
I haven’t really done too much with it yet, just a quick, stupid script to assemble command lines for DVD menu generation, but it looks like it’ll work well as a rapid-development medium-scale language. Sort of overlapping with Perl, but actually readable and capable of scaling up to larger projects (I wouldn’t want to have to maintain something that’s thousands of lines of Perl…).
There are some run-time performance and scalability concerns, so I wouldn’t use it for something like the data-crunching engines of our company’s products (we’re starved for cycles on the mainframe side even using large chunks of assembly), but there are plenty of applications where performance isn’t really an issue.