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Re: Python or Perl for a Debian maintainance project?



On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 06:14:28PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> >> All of this doesn't change the fact that Perl code actually has to test
> >> for errors _all_the_time_ if it wants to be reliable -- it's very easy
> >> to overlook exactly the one call which will later bite you.  :-/
> > 
> > "It's very easy to write broken code".
> > 
> The whole _point_ of this (part of the) discussion is that in Python, code
> that doesn't explicitly test for errors is perfectly OK because the
> interpreter does it for you.

I would say that the whole point was that is *not* okay.

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