Pick up the current edition of Linux Journal and read the Python
supplement. Young ESR is in there explaining why Perl blows g0ats.
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On Fri, 26 May 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > John Cavan <john.cavan@sympatico.ca>:
> > > But I have to ask, what's wrong with Perl for this? It's a well known,
> > > fast, and flexible tool that allows rapid development and change. Seems
> > > quite appropriate for this sort of effort.
> >
> > Start with the absence of object serialization in Perl. Python's
> > pickle/unpickle was critical to the design.
>
> Hey, let's not have the language war. Perl can do object serialization
> with Data Dumper and several others. You have exactly the same access to
> the symbol tables in both languages and walking them is trivial. The two
> languages are widely recognized to be roughly equivalent in terms of ease
> of development.
>
> Eric, it might be useful for you to try freezing your current code and
> tell us if the result a) works b) isn't too ungainly.
>
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