Python

Well, I've had a couple of goes at python now. Once with someone else's project and once writing a small application from (well, bridging an input device to an application, anyway). I have to say I'm not really impressed. It's moderately faster to write than C, but lacks the definition. Runtime does seem to be significantly faster than perl when using external libraries, and to assume that has more to do with how much less overhead there seems to be with symbol lookups and the like. On the other hand writing a package/module/class/whatever you want to call it in perl feels like much less of a hassle. I can see where the whitespace scoping is a good idea (make those lazy programmers indent their code), but I miss my braces. I also miss switch and static.

HD and HD! Yay!

Yay! I got High Distinctions for both Uni subjects (Introduction to Information Technology – D'uh; and Discrete Maths – a little more surprising) last session! (marks finally came through after nearly a month of waiting) So, uh, since I last posted, Ironically I drove my other car into a pole, destroying the driver's side door and seriously damaging the sill on the same side, and someone shot a red light and killed my mum's car while I was driving it. I've been to Brisbane and back, which wasn't terribly interesting, and just recently I got my full license, which means no more plates! Yay! Also eight more points and an alocohol limit of 0.05% blood concentration, but that matters to me not (I have never even had a parking ticket, and don't drive when I've been drinking).