Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Carl Banks <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, May 22, 2011 12:44:18 AM UTC-7, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
>> If Python would be so great, you wouldn't talk so much about how bad are
>> other languages,
>
> Sure we would.  Sometimes it's fun to sit on your lofty throne and scoff at the peasantry.

It's also fun, and sometimes productive, to sit on many different
lofty thrones, and then to have a Jedi Council meeting in which we
discuss which thrones are hard to climb onto, which ones are easy for
a child to sit on but hard to get any work done on, and which ones are
really comfortable and ergonomic, but have just that one little hard
bit to the right of where your arm wants to rest, but if you're
careful it won't jab into you too badly... and in those discussions,
Perl is a literal Swiss Army Knife. :)

> I would suggest that envy isn't the reason, the reason is that Perl is just that much worse than Visual Basic, Pascal, and Delphi.  We only make fun of the really, really bad langauges.

I'm not sure that Perl deserves to be put alongside Visual Basic. I'm
not sure that ANY language deserves that...

Chris Angelico