I don't know much about Python -- I have one book and have only begun reading it -- but I already prefer it to Perl. (Of course, I prefer Ruby to Python so far, but that may change.)
>From my pitiful bit of reading, Python is in many ways the anti-Perl. Perl was designed by a linguist; Python was designed by an engineer. Perl is all about TMTOWTDI; Python takes the approach that, yes, there's more than one way to do it, but there's usually one way that is by far the best. Perl encourages "clever" programming; Python encourages maintainable programming. I hope to get more time to look into it. Maybe once I finish learning an little bit about Ruby on Rails. Jon -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 3:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Why Python? esr seems to really like Python in this article. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
