* Luis Campos de Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Greg McCarroll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:13 AM
>
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> > It has to be said, that I wasn't fully expectant of that,
> > but I was trying to end on a high note and to quote
> > only Python is embarassing. And yet I keep seeing
> > people coming out with cool new projects written in
> > Python not Perl.
> >
> > Greg
>
> And here comes a good question: What are the goodies inside Python that
> keeps folks "coming out with cool new projects written in Python not Perl"?
> Are any of this goodies being introduced into Apocalipse (6|7)?
>
well, my evidence is anecdotal admitedly and i don't know why people
chose python (i will of course speculate) , however in the space of
two weeks i saw,
a) a new napster-a-like app, but aimed at downloading big files
using `swarm' technology, called BitTorrent, it is the sort
of thing that would be great for downloading debian ISO's,
lord of the rings trailors and for other more questionable
downloads. (google for bittorent for more info)
- this is written in Python and its the sort of thing i would
have traditionally expected to see in C or C++, i don't think i
would have expected to see it in Perl as <5.8 experimentation
led me to believe that complex server type stuff wasnt always
ideal in Perl due to problems with signals (feel free to tell
me i'm wrong)
b) a project in $large_media_organisation , written in Python and
XUL that could have easily been written in Perl, but because it was
Python the guy was left to get on with it and delivered a great
piece of software - now python is being well regarded in that
department as it has a 100% success rate
- in this case i think its a lack of history of seeing junior
python programmmers bite off more than they can chew, so to speak
that means python is being regarded well
in both of these case the python projects benefited due to a lack of
`sins of the fathers' as opposed to specific bits of technology as
compared with current Perl implementations/modules.
Greg
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