Paul Boddie wrote: (snip) > I'm not sure why people get all defensive about Python's > interpreted/scripting designation
Because it carries a negative connotation of "slow toy language not suitable for 'serious' tasks". Dynamicity apart, CPython's implementation is much closer to Java than to bash scripts - but still, as soon as you say "interpreted, scripting", peoples think "not serious". -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list