Dear Chris... On Thu, 25 May 2000, Chris McDonough wrote:
Honestly I'm sort of surprised that there is such a strong reaction to
A year ago I resigned from a web development company because they forced me to write Perl. I switched to Python and was and is very happy about it. I don't want to see a line of Perl. And after all DC annonced Perl Methods! How do you think I can feel about it? I resigned (i.e. - spent my money, nervous, my time to switch to another company) - and what I found now? Perl again. Well, I can see good points here. Perl methods probably will attract more users. But I can see bad points, too. What if my perl developer resigned? Should I pick up his code? I don't want, I want Python. Should I spent a lot of time manually converting his code to Python Method and debug it? "There is always too many ways to do it" - it is Perl motto, not Python. I am pretty sure Zope shouldn't has too many scripting languages. Many protocols - yes, it is very good. But many languages? No, that's bad. Oleg. (All opinions are mine and not of my employer) ---- Oleg Broytmann Foundation for Effective Policies phd@phd.russ.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.