Python factoids... after 3 three years.

Wed Oct 8 21:38:33 EDT 2003

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 11:36:00 -0400, in article
<3F82DD60.E17241CF at engcorp.com>, Peter Hansen wrote:

> I, uh, don't understand this...  _why_ would someone drop Python?

Because there's another language better suited to the problem domain.  I
haven't touched it in many years, and don't particularly care to, but if my
problem involved heavy-duty unification on text, SNOBOL (or maybe Icon) is
ideal for the task.

>:-)

Point taken.