martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Python (and any language that depends on vast amounts of installed >> infrastructure) seems a bit dodgy for a core low-level facility. > > It's a great language to develop stuff at a moderate speed.
It may well be (kinda ugly though) -- but that doesn't mean it's appropriate for a core system facility, which often needs to work even when the system is in a degraded state. -Miles -- `...the Soviet Union was sliding in to an economic collapse so comprehensive that in the end its factories produced not goods but bads: finished products less valuable than the raw materials they were made from.' [The Economist] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]