Article of interest: Python pros/cons for the enterprise

[Aahz]

In article <g5OdnfCTc4ahnV3anZ2dnUVZ_vamnZ2d at comcast.com>,
Jeff Schwab  <jeff at schwabcenter.com> wrote:
>Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>> 
>> Stating the obvious is not bashing. In my last shop I was working with 
>> (very talented BTW) Perl programmer, and he was the first to make jokes 
>> on Perl's abuse of cryptic syntax.
>
>It's not abuse.  It's meaningful and compact.  The $scalars are 
>intuitive to anybody who has ever written a shell script, the @arrays 
>are immediately recognizable...  I agree it takes some getting used to, 
>but then it becomes clear as day.

You're entitled to your opinion, but speaking as a former expert Perl
programmer, I disagree with you.
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