The week has been rather uneventful. I spent most of the time chatting and surfing my time away. As for the work there has not been any pressure. Seems like the people top side have some problems coming to terms with the complexity they have induced in the project.
They have been thinking of changing the language the project has been implemented in for almost the whole of last year (hey that’s what I know of… actually it’s been longer than that).
Now that everyone has become so at home with the forgiving nature of python and the benefits that come along with it, switching to ‘C’ will be a very tough proposition. Especially when you think of the amount of work that will be needed to be put in so that even a simple stage of the whole mammoth starts to take shape.
Actually that’s gonna be much harder than anyone has ever thought, especially when the mammoth doesn’t have any layering or any orthogonality and almost every line of code affects almost every other line’s outcome.
Let’s just assume that the whole process starts and begins taking shape… what then. With Python they can rely on the “exception handling” for all the non-initialized variables and changing everything at run time and getting away with almost anything. With ‘C’ however I can only wonder what’s gonna be the case.
Just some points
- No built in support for dictionaries or advanced data structures
- No exception handling support
- Compiled program and no interpretation.
Other than the project…
Well thing have been rather boring this week except for the holiday we got for the 1st of May (remember “Labor’s Day” that’s us). The white collar labor force!
