Introducing Cobra

[SJS]

begin  quoting David Brown as of Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:05:02PM -0800:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:40:00PM -0800, SJS wrote:
> 
> >>For a time, but Python continues to rise while Perl continues to sink:
> >>http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm
> >
> >Well, that's because it's the new shiny.
> 
> I use Python over Perl because I'm more productive, and my code is more
> maintainable.  As an added bonus, I don't have code that looks like comic
> characters swearing.

Heh. You should try APL sometime, and tell us how it works out.

I like perl for text-processing tasks. It *can* be a general-purpose
programming language, but that's not what it is best at.  Anything over
a couple of pages of perl, and I'm seriously itching to grab a different
tool.  Lots of people are very productive with very large perl programs,
even if I do think they're silly.

My opinions on python are well-known after the recent debacle, so
there's no need to rehash *that* ground. 

(...and there was much rejoicing...)

> Java is newer than Python.  In fact, so is PHP, C#, Ruby, and D.  In fact,
> Perl is not a lot older than Python.  I'd hardly call a 16 year old
> language new and shiny.

Didn't say it was "new and shiny". Said it was "the new shiny".

-- 
"Shiny, Captian!" little Kaylie said,
"If I don't fix this, we're all dead."
Stewart Stremler