Deposing Dictators

[Robin Becker]

In article <3B60AEAD.CB287C47 at engcorp.com>, Peter Hansen
<peter at engcorp.com> writes
.....
>The difference in readability (and thus ease of maintenance and
>ease of developing robust code) is sufficiently large to outweigh
>any performance differences.
>
>Obviously, the question of whether Python wins or loses, against
>Perl or any other language, is largely a matter of opinion. 
>As long as the performance is not an order of magnitude slower
>for my kind of application, I have zero reason to look enviously
>at Perl users...
>
I don't disagree on readability, but given that the scripties can do
perl already and the result is often faster python won't get a look in
at the sort of mundane tasks in web serving/shell scripting etc.
-- 
Robin Becker