Python compared to other language

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun May 20 14:41:39 EDT 2007


> PHP was definitely born _for_ webpages; Ruby wasn't, just like Perl or
> Python weren't, it just became very popular for webpages when Rails
> appeared.

In this kind of discussion, I get always reminded that Perl stands
for "Practical Extraction and Report Language". So Perl _clearly_
is for generating reports :-)

FWIW, I think the main purpose of Python is to do testing on distributed
operating systems :-)

Regards,
Martin



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