hi On 10/23/06, Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and I still don't get what's so compelling about Python.
well, it's no longer so compelling ... python is much more regular than perl. i have often thought of modifying the perl TMTOWTDI to TOOFWTDI [there's only one fuckin way to do it] to describe python. so, in a way, this makes python more maintainable than perl since you are not dependent on a programmer to make good design decisions at the start. however, it also is like programming in a straight jacket if you are used to the freedoms that us perl programmers take for granted. one size does not fit all. sometimes c++ programmers can make an easier transition to python than to perl. a particular pervisity of mine was to write a perl test and use python to grab the cgi input, correct it, and return something meaningful. i went back to perl shortly thereafter since it fit my working methods better. -- \js [ http://or8.net/~johns/ ] _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
