Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?
>>>>> But development is faster with Python [...]
>>>>
>>>> Is it?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> Development is fastest using whatever language you know
>> best. This is not an objective argument.
>
> Put it this way, a novice Python programmer can do more in
> Python than the novice Lisp programmer can do in Lisp, or,
> if you will, the same in less time.
Lisp is a maximalist, universal language. Python is designed
with certain aspects in mind. And quite successfully so! But,
as I mentioned, it's not just the language itself, Python has
this huge superstructure of support material/assets in
different forms. That part becomes a chicken and egg
discussion, but it's a fact anyway. Python is huge while Lisp
is the underground. So the languages themselves, for whatever
reasons (1), and the different sizes of the
superstructures (2), for these two reasons and possibly others
as well (?) it is just faster, less threshold, with Python.
It's completely natural and we see it all the time. One hockey
player is a power forward, another a playmaker (passer),
a third a goal scorer, a forth a physical defenseman, and the
fifth Mr Everything who can do it all.
And in practice, to win the world championship, the defensive,
physical player may have to end up scoring the game winning
goal! It happens, just not as often as with the goal scorer.
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