Rue the day...

[Cliff Wells]

On 29 Jan 2002 08:51:54 -0800
Rony wrote:

> "Chris Gonnerman" <chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net> wrote in
message news:<mailman.1012274265.29834.python-list at python.org>...
> 
> 1. How you keep defending the Python language over and over again.
> Don't understand me wrong, Python is a VERY good language and we are
> using it for years now, like a lot of you. But each time some guy asks
> here a question like 'Should i use Python of Perl' or 'Python or C for
> a real world application' evrybody here starts here to defend Python.
> IMHO this is useless, since allready the question is stupid... The
> language you want to choose depends on a lot of items and not only
> wether you have to use brackets of indents to structure code block, or
> to have to declare variables or not. Even the developmentspeed issues
> like you see here often depends on a lot of things, we have as an
> example 2 C goeroes in house that develop at the speed of other python
> applications, only the applications will be different and THAT is the
> reason that some application is written in C and others in Python...
> So if someone asks if he should use Python , the only real answer
> could be 'Have a look at it, try it and decide... you're a big boy'.

True, but that's not what people are really asking when they post those
questions.  They want a feature comparison.  Plus you have to remember that
Python is still one of the lesser used languages and people in a minority
group tend to be somewhat defensive about their position.  To test this
point, try staring at a goth girl in a nightclub sometime and see what
happens.

> 
> 2. How you keep answerring the same questions over and over again.
> Style 'WIch IDE to use to develop with python' or worse 'Does python
> have a compiler'. If you think this is just a small part of the
> question here, take google and do a search on IDE or compiler on this
> group.

These questions are asked a lot, but then again, given the pace of
open-source software development and the beta state of most of the software
in these categories, the answer may change in a relatively short period of
time, so they remain valid questions.

Regards,

-- 
Cliff Wells
Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
(503) 978-6726 x308
(800) 735-0555 x308

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