I was thinking more of the time-to-repair of a broken install, rather
than a broken python or perl program, for example if your perl site-perl
folder gets damaged, or your python compiled libs become ABI
'incompatible' somehow (say due to a g++ upgrade?).
In this case, both python *and* perl are pretty hard to repair unless
you know the language, and can leave a system administrator between a
rock and a hard place (reinstall, or seek an expert of that language)
I guess the same goes for ruby, i wouldn't know where to start in
repairing a broken ruby install...
Thanks
Craig
Avleen Vig wrote:
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:20:08AM +0100, Craig Edwards wrote:
I agree, however, i do not like the gentoo dependency upon python for
its package management system. It has not broken on me yet, however i
can imagine if it does it would be a nightmare to fix, as python is
not a trivial program. If FreeBSD ever were to attempt an emerge-like
system, it would be convenient imho (although probably less
maintainable?) to have it done in something smaller and easier to
manage (and easier repair when broken?) such as perl or shellscript.
Python is incredibly trivial.
It's much more trivial than perl, that's for sure.
I don't want to get into a holy war about languages on-list (anyone
interested can email me off list).
Having used perl for 5+ years, and starting to use Python in the last
year, I can tell you that Python has a very similar learning curve, but
is "better" for new (and old) programmers for several reasons:
Much more consistant syntax
- From this you get code that is easier to read, more portable
between developers, etc
Designed to be object oriented rather than OO being an after thought
These two things alone (IMO) make a HUGE difference to writing apps of
any size.
Plus Python's traceback feature is really awesome (perl may have one, I
haven't seen it, but with python it's just there, always).
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