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Old 05-05-2013, 10:49 AM   #12
js_wilson
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Name: Sean
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Re: Learning Programing

As I was reading about different programing languages, and deciding which one to start with, performance issues where something I did take into consideration. I ultimately decided to go with python more for ease of learning, and less time spent writing the code, rather than performance. Also, I understand that java, another interpreted language, runs even slower than python, and yet I haven't noticed any performance issues with the java based mud I have been a builder and player on up until now. Granted, this isn't being hosted on some shared plan with 30m ram, but a fairly inexpensive VPS with something like half a gig burst, and the java mud runs just fine, so I felt I could safely use python. Also, for the advanced features you were talking about, even if my codebase is made with python, I still have the abillity to call those functions in C in order to optimize performance. So all things considered, that was why I went with python.
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