In a way it's just that old principle of "you get what you pay for." There was an excellent, thorough study cited on this list a few years ago that showed that python was somewhat faster to code than perl, and somewhat faster to execute, and was the only language to be better in both those categories, if I recall correctly. I imagine that fewer choices => faster, in both categories. As always, freedom comes with a price, but I personally will always prefer the freedom that perl offers.
Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "\js" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Metro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "L-boston-pm" <[email protected]> Sent: 10/23/2006 9:19 AM Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Python 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 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
