On Friday 19 July 2002 12:01 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin Jeff Newmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > ... > > > i'd like to hear the opinions of anyone who has actually MADE the > > > switch from perl to python as their scripting language of choice. > > > > Perhaps you would like to read what Eric Raymond had to say about it. > > >http://www.linuxjournal.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-lj-issues/issue73&file=lstoc > > that's a good link. i guess you can measure a programmer's worth by > what he considers a "long" perl program. i would've called 100 lines of > perl endless. :-)
Hmm, I've been maintaining some perl scripts recently for a client, a couple of which are over 1000 lines, and have not found them too odious. I think a lot depends on the style of the programmer. It's just another language. Just read Eric's article... a bit melodramatic if you ask me. What it demonstrates is that if you're going to use the object-oriented features of a language, then it's important to be able to manipulate class definitions at run time. Since Python does that and GUI stuff too, it's a good solution for his problem. -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
