PEP Parade

[Joshua Macy]

Roy Smith wrote:

> Joshua Macy <l0819m0v0smfm001 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> 
>>   Just out of curiosity, what does the rest of your group develop in 
>>then?  FORTRAN?  COBOL? ("and none of this ANSI85 crap, either...it gets 
>>old trying to hit a moving target!")
>>
> 
> For internal tools, mostly perl.  For production code, mostly C/C++ and TCL.
> 

   Perl's latest stable release is 5.6.1  My linux box has 5.005 
installed standard, and I'm told that there are sites out there that are 
still chugging away on Perl 4.  Meanwhile the latest development version 
of Perl is 5.7.3 and Perl 6 is in the works.  If your fellow developers 
think that makes Perl stable compared to Python's rate of change, I 
think they're fooling themselves.


   Joshua