Re: [issues] OFFTOPIC: Re: your mail

[Maureen Lecuona]

Okay Deirdre, what is the best PYTHON introductory text in your opinion?

maureen

Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> 
> 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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