Hey all:
I'm working on a 'pure' python port of some existing software.
Implementations of what I'm trying to accomplish are available (open
source) in C++ and in Java.
Which would be easier for me to use as a reference?
I'm not looking for automated tools, just trying to gather opinions on
which language is easier to understand / rewrite as python.
-cjl 13 1830
cjl wrote: Implementations of what I'm trying to accomplish are available (open source) in C++ and in Java.
Which would be easier for me to use as a reference?
I'm not looking for automated tools, just trying to gather opinions on which language is easier to understand / rewrite as python.
Depends on what language you know best. But Java is certainly easier to
read than C++.
-pu
Patrick Useldinger wrote: cjl wrote:
Implementations of what I'm trying to accomplish are available
(open source) in C++ and in Java.
Which would be easier for me to use as a reference?
I'm not looking for automated tools, just trying to gather opinions
on which language is easier to understand / rewrite as python.
Depends on what language you know best. But Java is certainly easier
to read than C++.
There's certainly some irony in those last two sentences. However, I
agree with the former. It depends on which you know better, the style
of those who developed each and so forth. Personally, I'd prefer C++.
"cjl" <cj****@gmail.c om> writes: Hey all:
I'm working on a 'pure' python port of some existing software.
Implementations of what I'm trying to accomplish are available (open source) in C++ and in Java.
Which would be easier for me to use as a reference?
I'm not looking for automated tools, just trying to gather opinions on which language is easier to understand / rewrite as python.
-cjl
I've done a bit of manual porting from C++ and from Java, but never
for the same algorithm. Here are some points to consider:
1. Java is already garbage collected, object oriented, and generally
"safe". So an algorithm could be copied almost verbatim into
Python. In C++ you might get pointers, casts, etc. which would
leave you stumped.
2. Java as a community is trying to reinvent the wheel for everything
you might already have in a library. So whereas in C++ you might
just bind to the same library, in Java you might have to fight your
way through layer after layer of java-isms. You could end up doing
more work replicating the java-esque libraries than in doing the
actual code of interest.
Thus there is a tradeoff. For pure algorithms and
computer-science-ish programs, java may be easier. For anything that
uses libraries and API's, C++ may be easier.
As a practical matter, I have found I need to read the code and
understand it in the original language. Then, inspired by this
insight, I write a wholly new python program, using python-esque
idioms. So it comes down to which particular piece of code is easier
to understand, and that in turn depends more on the original author's
style than on the language.
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cjl wrote: Hey all:
I'm working on a 'pure' python port of some existing software.
Implementations of what I'm trying to accomplish are available (open source) in C++ and in Java.
Which would be easier for me to use as a reference?
I haven't touched C++ in a long time, my experience porting Java to Jython is that it mostly
involves deleting stuff :-)
I hacked together a script that does a lot of the work by applying a bunch of regex replacements.
Kent wo******@gmail. com wrote: Patrick Useldinger wrote:
cjl wrote:
Implementati ons of what I'm trying to accomplish are available (open source) in C++ and in Java.
Which would be easier for me to use as a reference?
I'm not looking for automated tools, just trying to gather opinions on which language is easier to understand / rewrite as python.
Depends on what language you know best. But Java is certainly easier
to
read than C++.
There's certainly some irony in those last two sentences. However, I agree with the former. It depends on which you know better, the style of those who developed each and so forth. Personally, I'd prefer C++.
I don't think the OP was asking for personal preference, and so I happen
to agree with the reply: parsing Java is definitely *much* simpler than
parsing C++, no matter how well you know either. As far as manual translations
go, that is much less a matter of ease of parsing but instead how closely
programming idioms match between the two languages that are involved.
And that obviously also depends on the specific code that needs to
be rewritten and the style it is written in (i.e. for example OO vs. templates,
etc.).
Regards,
Stefan
In article <11************ *********@g14g2 000cwa.googlegr oups.com>,
"cjl" <cj****@gmail.c om> wrote: Hey all:
I'm working on a 'pure' python port of some existing software.
Implementations of what I'm trying to accomplish are available (open source) in C++ and in Java.
Which would be easier for me to use as a reference?
I'm not looking for automated tools, just trying to gather opinions on which language is easier to understand / rewrite as python.
-cjl
My guess is you'd be better starting from the Java as a reference. So much
of C++ code tends to deal with low-level stuff like memory management and
pointers. At least in Java you won't have any of that stuff to wade
through.
Patrick Useldinger wrote: cjl wrote:
Depends on what language you know best. But Java is certainly easier
to read than C++.
There is a difference between theory and practice. In theory, Java is
easier to read than C++.
In practice however, the average Java programmer is MUCH less talented
than the average C++ programmer (let alone the average Python
programmer). The upshot of all this is that in practice (and my own
personal experience: we use both C++ and Java), Java code is bloated
with design patterns, obfuscated with many layers of indirection,
etc...
As a summary, Java code can most of the time be thrown away and
re-written from scratch (the fastest way). C++ code on the contrary can
easily be ported/wrapped.
Of course this is a matter of personal opinion. I love neither Java nor
C++. C is for me the purest language and there is no match when
combined with Python !
My 2 cents
Alain al********@yaho o.fr wrote: There is a difference between theory and practice.
You know the difference between theory and practice? Well, in theory,
there is no difference :-) wo******@gmail. com wrote: Patrick Useldinger wrote:Depends on what language you know best. But Java is certainly easier
to
read than C++.
There's certainly some irony in those last two sentences. However, I agree with the former. It depends on which you know better, the style of those who developed each and so forth. Personally, I'd prefer C++.
Not really.
If you know none of the languages perfectly, you are less likely to miss
something in Java than in C++ (i.e. no &, * and stuff in Java).
However, if you are much more familiar with one of the two, you're less
likely to miss things there.
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