On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 09:52:40AM -0400, Dan Purgert via Dng wrote:
> On Aug 08, 2024, David Billsbrough wrote:
> > Hello Dan and all,
> >
> > Quoting somebody on this mail list:
> >
> > > If you're trying to start up a new hobby, and expect to be using these
> > > tools every weekend; well, you're going to need that set of $40 tools
> > > when the $5 set breaks / ruins something / whatever. Might as well
> > > spend the $40 today instead of $5 today and $40 anyway in 2 months.
> >
> > [...] Tool prices, etc. comments. [...]
> > SO anyways ...
> >
> > In the virtual (digital) world this **idea** does' NOT also work the
> > same way at all.
> >
> > You can use FREE (beer or speech) software that meets and exceeds some
> > or most *TOP* dollar software offerings. Well because that just the
> > way that it is!
>
> You completely misunderstood the analogy I'm making...
>
> Scenario: OP is fighting with Python a bit in order to use MicroPython
> (or a variant thereto) to program a microcontroller.
>
> I'm telling him that *IF* he's trying to do this as more than a
> "one-off", he might as well learn C/C++ (via Arduino) now, rather than
> waiting on it.
>
> Python = "Cheap tool" (It'll get the job done, if all you need is this
> one thing)
>
> C/C++ = "Expensive tool" (It'll "hurt the wallet", but you'll have it
> forever).

Of course "urt the wallet" is itself an analogy in that it will actually
cost learning time rather than physical money.

-- hendrik

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