> However, a general culture that I have observed in Perl hackers is that the > more you know the language, the more you are prone to use real complex > code. Beautiful code != optimized code, in perl-land. IF there is more than > one way to do it, then perl users are more prone to do it in away that > reduces keystrokes, and hence ... > > Very difficult to do it in languages like Python and Java.
this is a *deliberate* design in python. general rule of code: it will evolve, ad infinitum, unless you fork, or outgrow your initial architectural limitations. hence it is good practice to have code 'comprehensible' to various eyeballs: past, present, future. however, this is not a flame-war. as several people point out, programming-language agnostism is a great idea. knowing python, perl, java, c, c++, and a few more is a more pragmatic approach to take to serious developing okay, so i deliberately loaded that initial posting to ilug-d, since for the past few months i discovered the interest-level towards python was rather low in ilug-d, and not so on other ilugs in india. its also quite hot in other parts of the world. anand, great to know you taught yourself python. sandip also knows it. supreet is our resident python-charmer. would be nice to have a show of hands. :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
