Long Live Python!

[phil hunt]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:40:41 GMT, Rainy <sill at optonline.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:29:21 +0100, phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:47:50 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>>>I tend to think of Python more as an extremely effective and maintainable
>>>general-purpose programming language, which happens also to work
>>>very well when applied as a "scripting language" (whatever that means).
>> 
>> To me it means "good for short programs <100 lines". Bear in mind
>> that 100 lines of Python is equivalent to 300 lines of Java or 400
>> lines of C++.
>
>I meant more like sending somewhere my resume saying I know python and did
>this and that, and getting hired. I actually did use some python at my
>previous job (some cgi/image manipulation). I was then asked to redo it
>in perl :-/.

Someone obviously doesn't like you.

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## Philip Hunt ## philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk ##