Re: [SLUG] language jihad

[Anand Kumria]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:21:01AM +1000, Ben Leslie wrote:
> 
> Let the flame war begin :>
> 
> I want comment on others I'll just give you my ideas about my
> favourite high level/scripting language.
> 
> Python (www.python.org) is a nice object oriented language which I find 
> quite good for most of my needs. I'll outline pros and cons below.
> 
> Pros:
[snip]
> 
> Cons:
> Nothing like CPAN (yet)
> Doesn't have a large installed user base (such as perl)
> White space for syntax
> Doesn't have DBI (well it does, its just not well supported yet)
> 

Annoying licence changes which make 2.0+ less widely used.

It matters to some.

Anand

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