[Zope] OT: Need to compare Python to Perl and Basic for Proposal

[Brad Clements]

Sorry this is off-topic.

I'm trying to convince Novell to sponser a port of Python (and hence, 
Zope) to the NetWare platform. NetWare already supports the following 
languages on the server:

  C
  Java
  JavaScript
  Basic (like VB)
  Perl


Essentially, I need to convince Novell that Python is a better language, 
or has more support, or more pre-packaged solutions, etc, than Perl, 
Java or Basic.

Does anyone know of any white papers comparing Python and Perl? 
Any "history of Perl" vs. "history of Python"?

Novell has a significant investment in server-side interpreted langauges 
already. 

I'm also concerned about resource utilization, such as memory and 
processor time, for typical operations in perl vs. Python.

Thanks for any suggestions..



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