On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 10:04 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Also, there are several engineers at Red Hat that are very unhappy with
> > the impact that the 3.0 release is going to have on them.
>
> Yes but it has been obvious for a long time that python does not
> consider backwards compatibility to be important. This shouldn't have
> come as a surprise. By comparison, perl has been around longer and
Judging by some of the comments on the fedora-devel list, it did anyway.
> through more changes and yet about the only thing you might have to
> check on a program written for perl 1.x to run under 5.x would be
> whether you have @ in double-quoted strings that you wanted to remain
> literal.
I used to do a lot of coding in perl, but I found that I liked python
better. I still like python for quick and dirty one-offs, but I'm not
going to use it for large and persistent projects.
> One other consideration is that perl probably has the current advantage
> in terms of available code library modules. Pretty much anything you
> can imagine doing has already been done and contributed to CPAN so often
> the code you have to write yourself is trivial with the modules doing
> the bulk of the work. Java may be catching up in this regard but I
> don't think there is a central place to find available code.
Google? ;)
I guess the real question is how well java is going to prosper under
Oracle's ownership. Then again, with openjdk, it might not matter too
much.
Dave
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