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Bridging Ousterhout's Dichotomy
- 1. Bridging Ousterhout's Dichotomy to hone your prog-fu Andy Grover [email_address] [email_address]
- 4. Wrote “Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century”
- 6. Compiled into machine code
- 9. Interpreted
- 15. "I am a big proponent of temporarily changing programming scope every once in a while to reset some assumptions and habits." – John Carmack
- 17. Everything Unix (esp. old stuff) seems to be written in it
- 18. The Linux Kernel
- 19. Performance*
- 20. Anything that needs to be smallish
- 21. “Getting” pointers – a big deal?
- 23. “Code Weight” Weight = running time * size * installed base
- 24. C is not for everything Greenspun's 10th Rule: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
- 29. Easy text handling & web programming
- 30. Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)
- 33. You forgot your TDD unit tests, pal
- 35. In a complimentary way
- 36. Knowing when to use one or the other should be pretty obvious
- 39. LL understanding aids working around HLL's leaky abstractions
- 43. Existing wrappers exec cmdline, blech!
- 45. Interact with people from distant cultures
- 46. Thanks!
Editor's Notes
- I'm actually filling in for the original presenter, who chose this presentation's title. I was a little confused by it. You don't need to be godly or have mad leet skillz to use python. It also is a very productive language, so it helps you make the most of your time on earth.
- Obviously this is incomplete, and there are many languages that don't fit this. Maybe it's easier to simply say high-level (focused on problem space, productivity) vs low-level (dealing with the machine as it actually is with little abstraction) o's false dichotomy This talk is not about taxonomy, it's simply about that being comfortable with a lang from each camp will bear fruit, even if your day-to-day work is in one or the other Low-level: C, C++, modula2, pascal. Only real choice today is C HL: Python, perl, ruby, haskell, lisp, C#, java
- C and Python syntax are both relatively small, and can be left unused for a while without completely leaving the brain Popular Do not try to learn C++. It is useful only as an exercise in demonstrating to yourself you can learn anything if you try hard enough. Some people like to learn languages and read programming Reddit. That's cool. This talk is not for you so much. :) Shell scripting is easy but I've found a real scripting language makes it much easier to grow code beyond a certain point
- Because of this last point, C has very good debugging tools, including Valgrind, oprofile, systemtap, gdb, ddd, gprof, and the like.
- C excels at code weight. It may be painful to write and debug, but the payoff is that ten million users will have that much more RAM for other things. Like Compiz and lolcats. When FOSS apps become popular, sometimes they will be rewritten in C! Tomboy, git porcelain
- It's not. But all the Plumbing and infrastructure is written in C, so if you hack down the stack, you should know it. If you're not writing a kernel or plumbing, fer gad's sake write it in a HLL
- In C the need to define everything would quickly take the fun out of such freewheeling use of collections. Exception handling makes code more compact and task focused – less “programming sit-ups” Anything you want to do, chances are someone's already done it, since writing a module is so easy. The corollary is, it may be easier for you to write it from scratch than to use their code :) No mess with .sonames (wiipresent story here) REPL's power is easy to underestimate
- If you know Python, then Ruby code is weird-looking, but you can follow it. Many langs based on c-style syntax, so also very helpful Design Patterns are missing language features?
- Our scm systems are rapidly improving, and this makes it trivially easy to pull down code and jump in. so pop around a little and see what other folks are doing. I've found myself contributing to some one-person projects, and they are THRILLED someone else is contributing.