On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 04:37:23PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 28 janvier 2006 à 12:47 +0100, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > Personally, I'd prefer to throw out perl rather than to add python. Our > > set of Essential packages is bloated already as it is. > > Feel free to rewrite the perl parts of all essential packages in C. I > think it would be a great improvement nevertheless.
I don't have the time to do this, otherwise I would've done so already. > > There is a difference between "COBOL on VMS" and "Python vs Ruby". > > Indeed, there is a very strong following of people programming in > > Python; but the same is true for Ruby. So why add Python and not Ruby? > > Because python and ruby have similar features, and the former is more > widely spread and used. I disagree. Ruby has one feature that python does not have: Ruby does not require you to use a certain specific coding style. Moreover, Ruby is way more popular in .jp than python is, IIUC. -- .../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ / -/ ../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ ..../ / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/ -.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ / --/ ---/ .-./ .../ ./ / ../ .../ / ---/ ..-/ -/ -../ .-/ -/ ./ -../ / -/ ./ -.-./ ..../ -./ ---/ .-../ ---/ --./ -.--/ / .-/ -./ -.--/ .--/ .-/ -.--/ .-.-.-/ / ...-.-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
