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• Data Munging in Python (Score:2)

  by davorg (18)

  Heh! Well they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery :)

  Wonder if it had anything to do with this post [python.org] from a Python mailing list.
• Python (Score:1)

  by TorgoX (1933)

  One wonder at what point Python will find some richer and more nuanced way to define itself other than just 'like Perl, but not Perl'.
  • Re:Python (Score:1)

    by rjray (1649)

    One wonder at what point Python will find some richer and more nuanced way to define itself other than just 'like Perl, but not Perl'.

    I do not exagerrate, nor do I say this for humorous effect: Of all the Python programmers I have known, not one could explain why they like the language without first defining it in terms of some feature of Perl that they did not like. I know no Python programmers on a personal level who are not in fact disgruntled ex-Perl-programmers.

    --rjray

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    --rjray
    • Re:Python (Score:1)

      by pudge (1)

      Maybe THAT'S Rindolf's target audience!
  • Re:Python (Score:2)

    by gnat (29)

    You say that like it's a bad thing. We can't define Perl 6 without saying it's "like Perl 5 but not Perl 5". There's nothing wrong with trying to do better.

    There's a famous quote of Larry's along the lines of "it's like sed, but better. Like awk, but better. Like shell, but better. Like C, but better. ...."

    --Nat
    • Re:Python (Score:2)

      by ziggy (25)

      You say that like it's a bad thing. We can't define Perl 6 without saying it's "like Perl 5 but not Perl 5".

      Um, it's like Perl5, but the outdated ideas that go back to Perl1 are out the window.

      I have to agree with torgox. A few pythonistas describe Python in terms of it's merits. A large number of them describe python as a cool language that doesn't have Perl's deficiencies. That's like describing a Volvo as not having the Edsel's push-button steering, nor the Pinto's exploding gas tank, nor the
      • Re:Python (Score:2)

        by jdavidb (1361)

        cool language that doesn't have Perl's deficiencies.

        And yet, the Python module system is so ad-hoc. Or it was, last I looked. They didn't think CPAN was a deficiency, did they?

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        J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
        • Re:Python (Score:2)

          by jdavidb (1361)

          By the way, that's not meant as a flame against Python. I'm just looking for a utopian module system. I'm starting to think it's a lot like C shared libraries, CPAN, CPAN.pm, and apt-get. Only without the deficiencies.

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          J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers