Andy Dingley wrote: [snip] > Python is one of the best languages I've found for > platform-independence - significantly better than Perl. [big snip]
This statement was given in the context of Windows and Linux, and I've precious little experience doing anything on Windows. So I won't challenge it in the least, and in fact do not doubt it. But taken out of that context, I'll challenge it. I was first exposed to Python about five or six years ago--my boss asked me to consider it. What I found was that the current version of Python was V2.2, but newest version (that I could find) that ran on VMS was V1.4. I decided to stick with Perl, which provides excellent support for VMS. Now that I no longer need to worry about VMS, I prefer Python. Quite a bit. /Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
