On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitch...@osgeo.org> wrote: > P Kishor wrote: >> Listen, I personally appreciate the zeal for open sourcing software >> and data (most of my personal religion is based on the belief that >> open data are better for everyone), but trash talking closed software >> makes the whole world blind. > > Of course we never trash talk other open source languages either, do we? > Where would we be without all the good arguments for Python vs the > 'others'... ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist. > > Just to say, we have done pretty good on this list avoiding platform or > language wars, but I am interested to learn what > strengths/features/ease-of-use others find in their language of choice. > Just to be better educated, not to flame anyone. >
It will lead to religious wars inevitably... weaknesses and strengths of language are probably better discussed on specific language forums. Probably other forums are appropriate, but OSGeo-discuss is too generic for it, imo. That said, I am finding Python advocates increasingly insufferable; their wonder at "look at this wonderful thing I discovered I can do" bores me to tears, and their enthusiasm for white space in code that actually means something is just bewildering. ;-) -- just another hacker of a language whose name begins with P _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss