[Discuss] 'C' string tokenizer for those who hate strtok

[Brian Quinlan]

David Bronaugh wrote:
> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> On 2006-06-30 11:16-0700 David Bronaugh wrote:
>>
>>> Brian Quinlan wrote:
>>>> And my opinion is -- just use Python (or Ruby [or Perl]).
>>> Have fun writing graphics code in Python.
>>
>> Hmm. That is exactly what the PLplot python interface does for you at 
>> least
>> for scientific graphics.
> Yeah, but isn't that an interface to a _C_ library?

Yeah, what's your point? Would you avoid a C implementation that used 
assembly language in some it's libraries?  High-level languages are good 
BECAUSE most of the heavy lifting has been implemented for you. And the 
heavy-lifting that is performance critical has been optimized using a 
lower-level language.

> Where's the Python compiler written in Python?

Google for "pypy" :-)

Cheers,
Brian