On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 10:25:46AM -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
> At 12:23 -0800 2001.03.16, Randy J. Ray wrote:
> >>From Slashdot, I got to the following interview with Guido Van Rossum:
> >
>
>>http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/searchEnterpriseLinux_Q_A_Page/0,285144,531191,00.html
> >
> >"Python is used pretty much across the board, much more across the board
> >than Perl."
>
> Eh. His generalizations about what is good for what aside, his only
> specific complaints against Perl / arguments for Python boil down to "I
> like it better, and so do other people I agree with."
Actually, he gives several reasons as to why he prefers Python over Perl:
- Python, much more than Perl, encourages clean coding habits
to make it easy for other people to follow what you are doing.
- Where Python wins is when you have users who are not very
sophisticated but have to write some code.
- Also, Python seems to work better when you have to write a large
system, working together in a large group of developers, and when
you want the lifetime of your program to be long.
I do agree with him on the first two points, and I can certainly imagine
cases where the third point holds too.
Abigail, who believes that the majoriy of the people coding in Perl
are better off using Python.
