On 11/19/01 12:25 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Python's got a good shot at things, as it seems to be the 'dirty little > secret' of the academic world--it's the practical language people admit to > using when they're actually doing something.
Sounds familiar... > I've reasonably good hope for Ruby, too, but nobody seemed to have heard of > it. That's hopefully changed. (I made a point of mentioning it, as it is a > really nice language and one of our targets) > >> Or is this just the academic distaste for Perl syntax showing through? > > Sort of. How "academics" can dislike Perl's syntax aesthetics and yet like Smalltalk's is beyond me. -John
