Question about development languages
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Nov 4 13:34:09 UTC 2003
Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs.toronto.edu>:
> One thing I found about Python is that it's quite easy to write
> Python code on the first day, and it's the best choice for GUI
> apps. But it's by no means a good replacement for sophisticated
> shell scripts. (correct me if I'm wrong).
I'm an expert shell programmer. But since I started using Python, I no
longer use shell for anything with control structure in it. One liners,
yes, but anything more complex seems to me to be more natural as a
Python program. Nothing new about this; Perl fans say the same thing
about Perl.
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