What is Python good for?

[Alex Martelli]

"John Beppu" <beppu at binq.org> wrote in message
news:mailman.1000330590.19641.python-list at python.org...
> [  date  ] 2001/09/12 | Wednesday | 04:44 PM
> [ author ] Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it>
>
> > If you think Perl is easy to master, then you're a very unusual
> > sort of person.
>
> Not necessarily unusual -- just different from you.
>
> My background in /bin/sh and C programming made perl
> really easy, because it just felt like perl fit
> right in the middle.  I can't say perl was very hard
> for me to learn

That may make it reasonably easy to get *started* in,
but *mastering* it is a completely different issue
(mastering sh programming is also rather arcane --
few, save Mr Bourne in person perhaps, feel really
sure of how many times a string is going to be
reparsed, and thus how many times one must double
up backslahes, for example... C is harder to get
started in, but relatively easy to master -- it
IS designed as a simple language, and succeeds in
meeting its design goals admirably well).

> ...and I'm not /that/ unusual...  I think.  ;-)

In having C and sh background?  No, sure -- that's
how Perl sucked in MANY of us at the start:-).


Alex