Re: [MLUG] guess what

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> Don't forget to buy a Python book.

Why? Are you author of one? I fail to see how a printed book can explain the
nuances of significant whitespace character distinctions.

> Python is the best language out there.

Baloney. I call "GoogleFight"! http://xrl.us/bugc

See? Perl wins by a landslide.

The first rule of GoogleFight is that Google is never wrong.
Just google on "litigious bastards". See what I mean?

> Way easier to work in than Perl, C++, or Java.

Yeah, if you like figuring out which of your developers has different tab
settings and expandtabs turned on in their IDE.

Any language that is dependent upon individual developer IDE settings for
reproducing working code on another platform has got to be right up there with
other brilliant programming "ease-of-use" features like TheDataTypeIsInTheName
and ThEMorOnThatInventedJaVahuMPTYSTyle.

And you've never seen the EJB "Hello World" example, have you?

If anything is "easier" to work in than the languages you've listed, that would
likely mean PHP. Which is really just Perl with training wheels.

Oh, and did they ever fix the following?

i=1
def f():
  print "i=",i
  i = i + 1 

f()

Hint: It does not print "i=2".

Mike/

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