On 05/22/2015 10:29 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> I think Python is a prettier >> language visually than either Lua or Ruby, but they're in the ball-park. >> Both languages have their warts and quirks, but if Python were declared >> illegal overnight[1] I'd probably have no trouble adapting to Ruby or Lua. >> Python would still be my first love, but these two languages make a >> reasonable rebound language. > > A good start. Toy programs don't always tell the whole story, though. > How good are the three languages at making your code reliable in the > face of user action? My hobby-horse, Unicode, is a notable flaw in > many languages - if you ask the user for information (in the most > obvious way for whatever environment you're in, be that via a web > browser request, or a GUI widget, or text entered at the console), can > it cope equally with all the world's languages? What if you want to > manipulate that text - is it represented as a sequence of codepoints > (Python 3), UTF-16 code units (JavaScript), UTF-8 bytes (quite a few), > or "bytes in whatever codepage your system was set to" (anything that > hasn't cared)? > > ChrisA >
Lo these many years ago, I argued that Python is a whole lot more than a programming language: https://www.tundraware.com/TechnicalNotes/Python-Is-Middleware/ -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
