Re: Consider Python John C.Randolph (jcr@idiom.com)
Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:35:49 -0700

Begin forwarded message:

From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>

>According to John C . Randolph:
>> Let's see... Python's free, it's available on a *lot* of platforms,
>> and it's considerably more legible than Perl.

> I'd prefer to see Perl, myself. But I don't want a language war here.
>Maybe we should limit ourselves to voting our preferences.

Well, I like Perl too, but...

One thing to consider if this CM system were written in Python: It would probably become the CM system of choice for pretty much all Python development in very short order, which gets us a lot of hands and eyes.

-jcr