Am 2006-11-14 um 04:17 schrieb johnf: >>> I have used Perl and like it for small script but the problem with >>> Perl is >>> that it doesn't scale well. I have seen enterprise type >>> applications >>> written in Perl that have quickly become a massive pile of code >>> that is hard >>> to follow and maintain. For that reason I like Python, even if the >>> number >>> of modules out there is less that Perl's. >> >> Reading Perl code makes my head hurt. It's a powerful but ugly >> language. > > Yea! And two weeks after writing code - you can figure out what it > does!
Of course, all of you - I know why I switched from Perl to Python! ;-) I once wrote a workflow management tool for my former employer, the first version was in Perl/Tk (it grew from a simple Perl script shoving files to some archive) but became slower with every new feature. (And Tk seemed to have a memory leak...) Then I learned Python and started from scratch (with wxPython and twisted). Even if the app became a monster it's still fast enough and my former colleagues still use it every night (although the management bought a commercial tool that should replace it). At my new job I seldom need Python (must do a lot of web stuff with ugly PHP), but I tickle my colleagues to use django ;-) Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
