[PyKDE] Updated pyuic4 snapshot

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Fri Sep 22 22:31:51 BST 2006


On 22.09.06 23:06:40, Torsten Marek wrote:
> >> I find it amazing how much fun Python programming is when you are programming
> >> Java the whole day at work. Today, I drove one of my fellow workers to madness
> >> because I thought about passing HashMap<String, Object>, which is the closest
> >> thing that Java has to a dict. And Java does not have a type-safe tuple (even
> >> C++ now has one in TR1).
> > 
> > Tell me about it. I have to use Java at work and currently I end up
> > implementing simple classes with only getter/setters to avoid multipli
> > nested Maps/Lists... 
> 
> That's what my co-worker tried to talk me into today. Seems like overkill to me,
> but then again I have to start thinking more java-ish.

Well, for me it's overkill too, but working with maps/lists is so much
pain in Java that it's actually worth it.

> > I need to check Jython out, maybe I can use that for my diploma to stay
> > with Java language while using python :)
> 
> Maybe you should also check out Groovy. It's strongly typed, but requires much
> less typing and supports (*gasp*) anonymous functions (at least somebody told me).

>From the Wikipedia entry it sounds interesting. I have to take a look.
Anyway I first have to talk my boss into using something java-based but
not java itself...

Andreas

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