On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:05:12PM -0700, Micah J. Cowan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:24:38PM -0700, David Hummel wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:37:27PM -0700, Norm Matloff wrote: > > > > > > By the way, I can't resist urging all you Perl users out there to > > > switch to Python. :-) > > > > The advantages of Python are clear, but I'd say switching isn't > > necessary. Better to learn both and use the language that best fits the > > task. > > Very heartily agreed. Both Perl and Python have very strong traits, > and the overlap (IMHO, anyway) between those traits is fairly small.
I agree strongly with that as well (choose the tool according to the job). In principle only in this case because I don't know any Python. Out of curiosity, what tasks would you choose to code in Python vs. Perl? -troy _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
