Question about development languages

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Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Needless to say ;)
> 
>>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.
> 
> Here's my scenario:  Am writing something called crs, which uses
> cvs and find extensively.  I'm writing in Python, but found it
> really hard to run cvs and find from there, handling the outputs,
> ... all the time.  I couldn't find any PyCVS module, if you are
> going to suggest that.

I've done essentially this in fslint:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/

Pádraig.