On Feb 27, 2010, at 12:27 PM, John Bokma wrote: > "sstein...@gmail.com" <sstein...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Feb 27, 2010, at 10:01 AM, @ Rocteur CC wrote: >>> Nothing to do with Perl, Perl only takes a handful of characters to >>> do this and certainly does not require the creation an intermediate >>> file >> >> Perl may be better for you for throw-away code. Use Python for the >> code you want to keep (and read and understand later). > > Amusing how long those Python toes can be. In several replies I have > noticed (often clueless) opinions on Perl. When do people learn that a > language is just a tool to do a job?
I'm not sure how "use it for what it's good for" has anything to do with toes. I've written lots of both Python and Perl and sometimes, for one-off's, Perl is quicker; if you know it. I sure don't want to maintain Perl applications though; even ones I've written. When all you have is a nail file, everything looks like a toe; that doesn't mean you want to have to maintain it. Or something. S -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
