Scripting lanuages for laboratory tests

[William Park]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:01:33PM +0100, Etta Makwetta wrote:
> To whom it may concern
> 
> I am tring to decide on which scripting language to use in one of our
> laborities during testing procedures, and I don't really know what the
> real advantages and disadvantages are.  I have made the following list,
> and would like to know if anybody knows of any obvoius other
> advantages/disadvantages that Python has compared to Tcl.  Any other
> comments about Ruby, Perl etc.  are also welcome.

Sorry to throw cold water, but it all depends what you want to do.
"Laboratory testing" can mean anything...  

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