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Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?



On Saturday 11 August 2007, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2007-08-11 11:34:48 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >     Really?  Tell that to the Perl 4 programmers.
>
> Perl 4 is obsolete and no longer used, and has complete disappeared
> from Debian a long time ago. Perl 5 has been there since 13 years
> (about the same time python 1.0 was released). Concerning python,
> one still has 5 different versions (python2.1, python2.2, python2.3,
> python2.4, python2.5) in currently supported Debian versions!

Oh well. Fundamental stuff hasn't changed much, and the only things that have 
gotten changed have been warned about for quite awhile. Not a big deal, 
ESPECIALLY since this started as a beginner conversation. He wouldn't 
*possibly* run into any of these issues.



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