language parallax

I’ve been spending a lot of time with python in the last few months. I had briefly looked at it way back in 2000, but hadn’t touched it much since then. Looks like it has matured quite a bit.

I still expect that I’ll be writing java in the future. And there is room for serious time spent with ruby or haskell. But I think python is probably replacing the niche that perl filled for me. So long, old friend.

I spent some time in the last couple of days with the inspect module. The result is some simple analysis of the python 2.6 code that happens to be installed on my laptop. Next rainy day I’ll look at compiler.ast and parser to make this a lot more interesting.