Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, curious wrote:

> 2> alot of redhat's controlpanel stuff was (and probably still is) written
> in perl (try locate *.py sometime)

Actually, Python is used more at Red Hat these days than Perl. There's a
good reason for it, eloquently stated by Alan Cox: you can't guarantee
perl scripts won't break. They have in the past. For this reason, many
programmers consider perl unacceptable for things that need to be
installed on a wide variety of systems.

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