Doug Morse wrote: > although perhaps not a part of the definition of scripting languages per se, > one aspect of them is that they are often used to "glue" a wide variety of > other components together. perl's initial and continued success is in no > small part to all the wrappers and interfaces it has to all sorts of other > software components and applications. part of python's utility, IMHO, is the > ease with which it can be used, like perl, to glue together a lot of disparate > parts. > >>>> But here's my problem, >>>> most of my coworkers, when they see my apps and learn that they are >>>> written in Python ask questions like, "Why would you write that in a >>>> scripting language?" Whenever I hear a comment like that I can feel >>>> myself boiling inside.
I'm with Doug on this. Python *is* a scripting language which is a *good* thing. It's their perceptions of what scripting languages are capable of that are out-of-date. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
