The Guru

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:42:56AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> I'd consider changing to Python (or at least exploring it) if it weren't
> for the time investment that would be lost in having learned Perl.  Already
> did that once when I (mostly) dropped C.  There's also the question of
> losing access to the vast resources of CPAN, which are both significant and
> overrated at the same time.  I say overrated, because as with SourceForge,
> too many modules see a pre-alpha or an alpha, and then you never hear from
> the authors again.  There's a lot of semi-useless crap out there to sort
> through. 

Python has it's own, much smaller, library called (I think) PEAR -- or
maybe that's PHP's.  But keep in mind that with the upcoming April-Fool
inspired Grand Unificaation, you'll probably be able to use CPAN
modules from Python anyway.

Cheers,
-- jra
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