Michael McGarry wrote:
I intend to use a scripting language for GUI development and front end code for my simulations in C. I want a language that can support SQL, Sockets, File I/O, and shell interaction.
In my experience, Python is definitely much more suitable than Perl for the first four areas mentioned in the last sentence. For the last area, I'm not sure, but Python's capabilities in this area are also quite good.
Shell interaction (or rather, external process interaction) is a lot better with Python 2.4's subprocess module. Better or worse than Perl? I'm not sure; generally I'd guess better, as it avoids the shell with all the shell's issues, and provides a more controlled programmatic way of interacting with subprocesses. OTOH, Perl might have perfectly good modules for doing the same thing. I can only say it's been missing for a while in Python, and it's good to see this done right.
-- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
