On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 13:04 +0200, Tim Goetze wrote: > [Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen] > > >>breathe deeply. think of snakes. say "python". > > > >Are you serious? Do you know python? I hope not... > > > >I don`t want to start a flame-war over programming languages, > >but I know both scheme and python very well, and would > >never consider python as an extension language again. > > Would you care to back up this judgment by a few facts? > > One has to consider that a scripting extension for an application like > ardour, with an intended audience of little to no programming > knowledge, will have to be as painless and intuitive to learn and use > as possible and still provide power and freedom of expression to the > savvy. > > I know of no language that fits this bill better than python. > Lua perhaps? http://www.lua.org/
There's a somewhat Lua-oriented comparison here: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaVersusPython And (balance!) a somewhat Python-oriented comparison starts here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2003-December/026847.html Simon