Searching for the best scripting language,

[Cameron Laird]

In article <C7CdnQYX-bIwsFPdRVn-ig at powergate.ca>,
Peter Hansen  <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>Carl Banks wrote:
>> Heh.  It seems to me that, by the same reasoning, we could claim that
>> Python has verbose execution.  Someone's obviously willing to give
>> Perl the benefit of the doubt here, but not Python.  I smell
>> shenanigans.
>
>I tried a few Google searches, even apparently reaching the page that
>started this thread, but I can't see what "verbose execution" might
>mean other than (a guess) a "trace" mode which prints something for
>every line executed as the interpreter runs.  And, if that's really
>what it is, then Python does have the capability pretty easily, via
>sys.settrace().  (Which I'm sure Carl knows, therefore I assume my
>guess is wrong.)
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I idly and gratuitously submit that I regard it as more likely
the Scriptometer folks are that ... naive.
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Cameron Laird <claird at phaseit.net>
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