Re: [Tutor] Python on AIX

[Tino Dai]

On 7/12/06, Steve Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello all,

Just started a new job - most of the machines I am administering are
AIX, and don't have Python at all.  What is going to me the most
pain-free, scaleable and supportable way of getting Python onto these
machines?  I need to take this request to change advisory board.

Also, I could find myself facing a barrage of questions along the
lines of "Why not use perl or just shell?" Has anyone had much joy in
winning over such people?

 

I'm going to take a stab at this. The advisory board like all human don't like uncertain. And even though a programming language has an element of uncertainately built it, not all programming languages are equal. Maintainablility, readability, and extendability are all keys of "non-throwaway programs". I have use Perl/shell over the past ten years and can pretty much do anything Perl and shell (you should see my camel book). I see a couple of drawbacks to using Perl over Python.

1 - Perl can look like a cartoon character cursing a lot
2 - Perl and can become very unwieldy and very unmanageable very quickly - I have regular expressions and code that I wrote and would take me a good deal of time for me to re-understand
3 - Object oriented - Python is object oriented right out of the box, perl is not. I have read somewhere that the OO part of perl is "bolted on". Adds to manageability factor

Another compelling reason:
4 - Google uses it for all of their scripting internally

The second which is off topic is human nature and really is off topic. If you are interested in this, email me directly. Thanks!

HTH,
-Tino

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