RE: OT: Should I learn bash/C/python/perl/other

From: STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) (stymar_at_lucent.com)
Date: 08/11/05

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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:41:29 -0500

    > > Well it's portable in that it's available on multiple
    > platforms, but the
    > > architects of the language don't worry too much about breaking old
    > > programs with new versions of python, at least not when
    > compared with
    > > perl. In other words, an old perl program is still likely
    > to work on a
    > > new version of perl, which might not be the case for an old python
    > > program and a new version of python.
    > >
    As a language matures, compatibility with code written for old releases
    improves. The comments on having to rewrite python code when a new
    release came out were true about perl a few years ago. If you are really
    old, new releases of C and sh caused grief during the late 70's early 80's.
    Python will most likely stabilize over time.

    Bob Styma 

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