If anyone were to ask what language of the family to learn at this point, I'd point towards Ruby. Best parts of Perl and Python's syntax, fully OO end to end, and provides a language basis for what seems to be the most flexible RAD web platform around (Rails). Kris Browne kris.browne at gmail.com 612-353-6969 612-408-4431 http://www.google.com/profiles/kris.browne "the least expensive, most bug-free line of code is the one you didn't have to write." - Steve Jobs On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 18:28, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 05:36:31PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > > > Python was all the rage for awhile, and has some really nice > > > characteristics. After writing an app in perl I really didn't feel > like > > > changing course and re-writing the whole thing in python because > someone > > > told me it was better. Again, YMMV. I really don't know why/if python > > > is awesome. > > > > In other words, you like what you know and you don't know if you like > what > > you don't know? > > > > Has the rage about Python ended? I don't know, and I really have "no dog > > in this fight," as they say, but I want to know if there has been a > change > > in direction of popularity. > > I like Perl more - it feels more 'natural' to me, as coming from a C > and shell scripting environment. I wrote a few large (5-10kLoc) > applications in Perl and I found that they are easy to write but hard > to maintain. These days I'm using Python for all my scripting needs, > and I found no _need_ to go back to Perl. > > Cheers, > florin > > -- > Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. > http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100326/1340ebbb/attachment.htm