David Douthitt wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote:I would suggest that it is possible to write maintainable and understandable Perl code, just as it is easy to write complicated, incomprehensible, and obfuscated Python.On Saturday 28 April 2007 19:22:21 Peter van der Does wrote:Historically it seems to many that python apps remain maintainable over time, while perl apps have a tendency to not.Just out of curiosity but why are our webapps written in Python and not in Perl for example?On a related note: does this mean one would be handicapped (in the Fedora Infrastructure area) by a lack of Python knowledge?
Not at all, I didn't do my first hello world app in python until last August. It's just that a lot of our development is done in python and we happen to have a lot of development needs right now. But as long as you have core competencies in some of the technologies we're using (Apache and Xen both immediately come to mind) you'll do just fine.
-Mike
