Python - excellent x-platform, particularly on Macs. Perl, for all it's virtues(!) was never that good on Macs, although 5.6.1 finaly made to the Mac - a leap of 3 years and 4 major versions!
I've also had difficulties with installing modules for Perl on PCs (but not usually with AS Perl), even with CPAN :-( Java is far to embracing, and heavily slanted for lock-in, has a terrible time on Macos 9 beyond 1.1 (no Swing etc). Most of all, Python Does Good Object. Both Perl and Java have more syntactical sugar than is good for them. Python is simple, neat and clean - all signs of a good language. Several friends of mine have barfed at the indent idiom, but it does keep things minimal. At 25/04/2002 22:31:39, Stefan Kuzminski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # one of the great things about python is that it is very slowly versioned, 10 # years old and only v2.1. I've been using it for 4 years and cannot think of # a single backward incompatability. As opposed to say VB where the new .net # release is dramatically different than the current 6.x? release.. Languages # usually go through a difficult period of versioning ( think Java 1.2.1 ) but # Python has been blissfully spared this ( in my experience so far ). # # Stefan # # -----Original Message----- # From: Andrea Pertosa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] # Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:24 PM # To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Subject: Re: was (no subject) + new thread # # # Ok, # so since noone seems to be around I would like to start a discussion. # How much do you think Python is going to change from release to release? # I am a newbie but I couldn't help noticing that many additions and removals # are # implemented with each new version. # Sorta like: you might spend hours implementing a method in 2.1 just to find # out that # .. oh.. that library function does exactly what you want in 2.2. # I can see that a language needs to evolve... but sometimes I'm just more # confortable # with good old ANSI 'C'. So to speak.. # Anyone wants to comment? # Andrea # # # "Patricia J. Hawkins" wrote: # # # >>>>> "MP" == Michael Petry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: # # MP> Anybody out there? # MP> Just wonderin # # # Nope, no one at all. # # # -- # Patricia J. Hawkins # Hawkins Internet Applications, LLC # # # _______________________________________________ # ActivePython mailing list # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs # <http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs> # # -- # # * Andrea Pertosa Ann Arbor - MI - 48105 # # * * Development Engineer, VPG Tel: 734-913-9256 # # * * Mechanical Dynamics Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] # <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # # ******* 2300 Traverwood Drive http://www.adams.com # <http://www.adams.com> # _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list # [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: # http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs # # - att1.htm Roger _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
