Google I/O 2008 – Painless Python Part 1 of 2
Posted By: admin | 2009.11.12
Painless Python for Proficient Programmers Alex Martelli (Google) Python is a popular very-high-level programming language, with a clean and spare syntax, simple and regular semantics, a large standard library and a wealth of third-party extensions, libraries and tools. With several production-quality open-source implementations available, many excellent books, and growing acceptance in both industry and academia, Python can play some useful role within a huge variety of software development …
25 Comments:
JoakoXWacho / October 29, 2008 11:58 pm
Nice.
Simple, easy to understand.
I love google <3
kabadizzle / December 21, 2008 4:38 pm
This video is bazzickly awesome! :p
haggistheman1525 / January 12, 2009 5:37 am
I took a class that taught this language and it was very interesting.
ToastDevourer / January 14, 2009 12:47 pm
Who gives a shit? I’d rather use ” cout << "You are a noob!"; " since it looks nicer.
andoyandoy / January 14, 2009 2:37 pm
setting the facts straight is useless?
andoyandoy / January 14, 2009 2:42 pm
that won’t even compile
youtube wouldn’t scale as much if it’s back-end was done in cpp, that’s the power of python – productivity.
ToastDevourer / January 14, 2009 3:28 pm
Uh, I think you’ll find my little snippit of code will compile in any major C++ compiler. So, stfu!
andoyandoy / January 15, 2009 12:34 am
what’s with your anger issue? can’t you make a discussion without bad language?
first of all it’s spelled snippet.
my bad, your cpp snippet will run! you’d just have to redundantly include the libraries and your main function every time you make a program.
in py, this is a full program:
print ‘not a snippet’
ToastDevourer / January 15, 2009 7:49 am
Hah, before you go accusing me of bad English, look at your own. What’s THE first thing they teach you, about English, hmm? Capital letters, it should be. And like it matters how I spelled the word.
I still don’t know why the length of a function REALLY matter. I think he was just attempting to make Python look good.
(Not saying it isn’t)
andoyandoy / January 15, 2009 8:13 am
c is still C, but snippit is definitely not snippet.
shorter code matters because it is maintainable and it minimizes errors.
ToastDevourer / January 15, 2009 7:41 pm
Yeah, what does a few letters matter?
Why don’t you just program it without errors in the first place.
andoyandoy / January 16, 2009 12:22 am
it wouldn’t be just a few letters in real world programs, think in a larger scale, let’s say youtube.
programming without errors is ideal, every programmer strives for error free code. but when it’s a large scale project, team effort is needed, new features are introduced incrementally, the design might even change. bottom line – changes are needed to scale. even with a whole bunch of tests, not all bugs are discovered until it is released to the real world.
ToastDevourer / January 16, 2009 9:11 am
A moment ago we were talking about output to the console, you wanker.
Obviously on a larger scale, having smaller code will increase productivity and reduce debugging time.
andoyandoy / January 16, 2009 10:01 am
“I still don’t know why the length of a function REALLY matter.”
“Yeah, what does a few letters matter?”
- i was merely trying to address your crude statement.
if you want to limit your perspective as a programmer to just output to the console, then that’s up to you.
i was talking about the implications of short code to real world programs.
Masterfootballer23 / February 16, 2009 4:31 am
lol every comment is -1
hiddenblades42 / March 4, 2009 6:04 am
what do you mean “every”???
I see some that aren’t dude…
hiddenblades42 / March 4, 2009 6:06 am
Can you give an example please?
hiddenblades42 / March 4, 2009 6:08 am
Like when you said that “Ruby is shorter”?
DrewLeSueur2 / March 18, 2009 10:04 pm
Thank you!
gniquil / March 26, 2009 4:18 am
the only reason I watch his videos is to catch those addictive sound bytes of “basically”. No one can pronounce it better than he does.
klined / March 27, 2009 11:42 pm
gotta agree
manictatter / April 22, 2009 4:43 am
“bazziclee”
“icks”
Good vid.
andrnag / June 10, 2009 5:45 am
Please, respect people from other countries. Don’t ridicule them.
FarhanBrohan / July 11, 2009 9:16 pm
Where can I get the powerpoint he is presenting? Anyone?
kjaerjakcajk / July 29, 2009 2:12 am
Sieg Heil Python! The superior master language!!