Why Python/Jython?

[Steve Holden]

<support @ internetdiscovery.com (Mike Clarkson)> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:26:59 -0500, "Steve Holden"
> <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>
> >"Steve Purcell" <stephen_purcell at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> Programmer performance is usually gauged by coding time and
> >> number of bugs, both of which are vaguely proportional to the number of
> >> lines of code in most sane languages*.
> >>
> >> * Perl is a noteworthy exception
> >>
> >I saw no inconsistency here. Why would Perl be an exception to your rule?
>
> It's not a sane language :-)
>
> It's like vicegrips: the wrong tool for every job.
>
Interesting. I thought Perl wasn't an exception precisely because your
original wording clearly didn't apply to it (because it's not a sane
language).

not-wishing-to-get-tied-up-in-semantics-ly y'rs  - steve