Why isn't Python king of the hill?
Greg Ewing
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Wed May 23 22:30:09 EDT 2001
Bruce Sass wrote:
>
> What is a "host scripting language"?
I think he meant that Python is designed for writing
programs which run directly on the host OS, whereas
most of Java's popularity seems to stem from its
use as a web-server-applet language.
> Compare:
>
> cat name.pt{1a,2a,3b} > name vs. ???
But when the task requires any computation even
slightly less trivial than iterating over a list
of file names, I find it much easier to remember
how to *do* it in Python than to figure out the
necessary sh or csh contortions. So nowadays,
I tend to write any script of more than one
line in Python, even if the Python version is
somewhat longer.
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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, University of Canterbury,
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