David Cantrell wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> Does a preference for Python just come down to personal taste, without >> any real objective, technical benefits? > > Does "I'm a lazy git who hates writing code and would rather you lot > write it all for me. Gosh, CPAN is great" count at personal taste?
CPAN certainly was a major advantage in Perl's favor, but is it still? I know within the past year I read an enthusiastic mention of a technology that would let PHP developers directly use CPAN modules. Yet I would have thought by now that PHP would have amassed a comparable library of modules. Likewise for Python. In any case, even if CPAN is still superior today, it doesn't sound like a sustainable advantage, unless these other language communities have some flaw in their ability to get modules contributed to their repositories. (I wouldn't discount that possibility. Look at the JSAN archive for JavaScript. It seems to be growing at a snail's pace. The cause may be partly technical (support for loading modules is a hack) and partly cultural.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
