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<br>> From: wescpy@gmail.com<br><br>> as an aside, here's the antithesis blog post:<br>> http://bitcheese.net/wiki/nopython<br>> <br>> comments on *that* one? (many already know that the 1.10000000000001<br>> display issue is taken care of by Python 3.1.)<br><br>Most of his comments are well out-of-date.<br>Any guesses what version was he referencing 1.x? 1.4? 2.1?<br><h2>Python vs OCaml</h2>
<ul><li>No static type system. It makes impossible to apply “correct
by construction” principle in python. Although, exceptions just don’t
work (see above).</li><li>No pattern matching. And even no switches
— actually even PHP has it. Some people recommend to use “if – else if”
constructions instead…</li></ul><font style="" color="#548dd4"><tt class="module">[??? re</tt></font><font style="" color="#548dd4"> module was added way back in Python 1.5, and before that there was regex] </font><ul><li>Python performance sucks. Any single implentation of OCaml works much faster than any implentation of Python.</li></ul><font style="" color="#548dd4">[anyone got any contemporary numbers?]</font><br>
<h2>Python vs Ruby</h2>
<ul><li>Python appears to be an object-oriented language, but OOP
system is just a syntactic sugar for dictionaries, and you have to fall
back to direct intervention to do serious business.</li></ul><font style="" color="#548dd4">[what on earth does he mean? must be talking about a very old version. No example given.]</font><br><br>Regards,<br>Stephen<br><br /><hr />Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. <a href='http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=PID23285::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_online:082009' target='_new'>Find out more.</a></body>
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