I have a slightly tangential take on this subject. I do web development and it is entirely python nowadays. Having said that let me quote Eric Raymond. *"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."*
I have learned and use Clojure a dialect of Lisp for some odd jobs just for this reason. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The project management thread highlighted this issue of "if it's not in > Python, I don't want to use it". > > Assuming that most of the people here are mostly python enthusiasts or > learners, I'm wondering when you would *not* use Python. Let's not > conflate this with Open Source/Closed Source etc. > > I'm just interested in situations where you'd stay away from something > *just* because it isn't in Python. The only reason I'd stay away from > something like this is if I needed to work on it's code and it was in a > language that I wasn't familiar with and didn't have the time to learn. > > Also, there are plently of situations where I'd jump to a language other > than Python at the outset (e.g. for log file parsing, Perl still wins > for me). > > Comments? > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- http://hi.im/santosh _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers