Whats so good about Python?

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, 8 May 2002 16:52, Alex Martelli wrote:
> Michael Gilfix wrote:
> >   Better yet, why doesn't someone just write the Python vs. Perl FAQ?
> > It'll be a good advertiser for the community and then we can avoid these
> > threads by just pointing people at a URL.
>
> Since both Perl and Python are in continuous evolution, such a FAQ (of
> which various versions exist) would become obsolete very fast unless
> actively maintained.

Witness half the stuff in http://www.python.org/doc/Comparisons.html - 
anything written > 2 years ago can probably be thought of as obsolete. 
Glancing at some, I see that they're flat out wrong in places.


   Richard