Re: [Boston.pm] Python

On Oct 23, 2006, at 3:01 AM, Tom Metro wrote:

> Does a preference for Python just come down to personal taste, without
> any real objective, technical benefits?

Largely, yes.  There used to be some serious lacunae in Python, but  
the last time I looked at it (which was a few weeks back) they all  
seemed to have been dealt with.  I didn't dig terribly deep, though;  
the context was a discussion of whether $work should port things away  
from ColdFusion, and, if so, to what.  (My answers: yes, yes, a  
thousand times yes; and even PHP would be an improvement.)

"No better than the warts on Perl, just a bit different" is a pretty  
good summary.  If Perl's warts really bother (the hypothetical) you  
and Python's warts don't, then Python's probably a better choice.

Charlton


-- 
Charlton Wilbur
cwilbur-AHvNe43NsMMnLIcjVmQCtA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx