On 6 Feb 2005 05:19:09 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I'm a software engineer, familiar with C++ objected oriented > development, but have been using Perl because it is great for pattern > matching, text processing, and automated testing. Our company is really > fixated on risk managnemt and the only way I can do enough testing > without working overtime (which some people have ended up doing) is by > automating my testing. That's what got me started on Perl. > > I've read that many people prefer Python and that it is better than > Perl. However, I want to ask a few other questions.
I could go on and on, but this essay by Eric Raymond says it better: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882 > 3. Perl is installed on our system and alot of other systems. > You don't have to make sys admins go out of there way to make it > available. It's usualy allready there. Python is in most Linux installations ... but it's much more rare than perl elsewhere. Yes, this is a reason to write smaller text-processing and automation hacks in perl. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ algonet.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
