why isn't python more popular?

Courageous jkraska1 at san.rr.com
Mon Aug 14 00:51:36 EDT 2000


Jordan Katz wrote:
> 
> aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
> 
> > Unless those people have Perl as their *only* programming language, I
> > bet that most of them would find reading *other* people's Python
> > programs easier to read than other people's Perl programs, after only
> > one day of training in Python.
> 
> I think this point is stretched a little too much.  In general, I
> agree; Python's more readable than Perl, but it *is* possible to write
> very nice, readable, and concise code in Perl.  It's upto the
> programmer more than the language.

Python's structure is less likely to lead to obfuscated code
overall, IMO.


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