Perl or Python?

Thu Jul 2 18:35:47 UTC 2009

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:57:53PM -0400, Marc Lanctot wrote:
> Python is still a high-level scripting language, but higher than Perl
> is. Python is more like Java, really. It is a full-fledged language in
> the sense that it comes with a standard library, enforces stronger
> syntax requirements, etc. etc. 

That's a mean thing to say about python.  Unlike java, python is actually
useful and doesn't make you go insane trying to run it on other systems,
and python has decent performance.

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Len Sorensen
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