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Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

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On Tue, 24 May 2011 19:10:50 +0300, "Octavian Rasnita"
<orasnita@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> The Perl programmers usually don't need to look in the dictionary when they are creating programs.
> Perl is harder to learn, but it is easier to use.
>
	I'd rather have a working program after a few days of studying the
Python books than after six months of trying to understand PERL... And
did -- I had a usable makeshift SMTP outgoing mail program on my Amiga
within a week of installing Python (Irmen's port); this at a time when
the first downloaded mail program I used assumed it could connect
directly to all target destinations -- and would hang up my outgoing
mail when a machine was not reachable. The second downloaded program
used ISP relay -- but the coder hadn't realized that the initial
handshake had to specify all CC and BCC addresses along with TO
addresses.

	At work, I did have to help someone with a PERL program at one
time... I could only do that by first prototyping code section in
Python, and then looking for the PERL equivalent in the Camel book.
 
> A shorter code can be typed faster, obviously, and there are fewer possibility of appearing errors, but the shortage is not the most important thing.
>
	"fewer possibility..."? Not when half the language is cryptic
characters to define how to interpret the variable.
 
> The most important thing is that the chars @, $, or % are the same in all languages, while the

	If by that you mean they are punctuation... Yes...

	But in SQL, % is a wildcard...

	As I recall, $ in column 1 identifies a statement in DCL (and I
think in CP/V batch files; my manuals are in storage) -- lines without
the $ are considered data that can be read by I/O statements. But in
CP/V FORTRAN-IV, $ in column 1 is a comment.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
        wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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