On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:58:06 -0800, walterbyrd wrote: > On Dec 21, 12:28 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers > <bdesth.quelquech...@free.quelquepart.fr> wrote: >> Strange enough, >> no one seems to complain about PHP or Ruby's performances... > > A few years back, there was a certain amount of chest thumping, when > python/django easily beat ror in a benchmark test. Now that ruby is > faster, I guess speed is no big issue.
Who was doing this chest-thumping? Fanboys like "r"? Why should you tar all of us with their immaturity? > By the same reasoning, python advocates used to sneer at php because php > constantly broke backward compatibility. Now that python does it, > breaking backward compatibility is no big deal. No, breaking backward compatibility IS a big deal. That's why Python is doing it slowly and carefully: the minimum amount of breakage necessary, and with the Python 2.x series kept going in parallel for at least two additional versions. > I guess unicode support > was not that important, until python caught up to perl. Python has had unicode support for a long time. You just needed to write u'' instead of ''. > I guess, the way it works is: you first assume that python is superior, > then you figure out why. Just keep on trollin'. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
