Long Live Python!

[Rainy]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:29:21 +0100, phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:47:50 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>>I tend to think of Python more as an extremely effective and maintainable
>>general-purpose programming language, which happens also to work
>>very well when applied as a "scripting language" (whatever that means).
> 
> To me it means "good for short programs <100 lines". Bear in mind
> that 100 lines of Python is equivalent to 300 lines of Java or 400
> lines of C++.
> 
> 

I meant more like sending somewhere my resume saying I know python and did
this and that, and getting hired. I actually did use some python at my
previous job (some cgi/image manipulation). I was then asked to redo it
in perl :-/.

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