Slashdot Quotes About Python

Finally C gives easy hooks into the OS, which isn't the same at all with Lisp, although you can do anything you can do with C it isn't Lispy to do so.

I personally love Python (used it for all the code I wrote for my thesis), but these days I program Perl at work. It's not that bad, really. It makes sense, in its own way and it's got a good solid set of libraries available out there.

So the question is not so much are you good enough to learn C, but are you willing to take the time. In C, algorithms tend to be quite a bit more complex than they are in Python,

That made me sit up and take notice. A pretty nice programming language with built-in functionality to read and write Sqlite databases natively?

Now extensive third-party repositories such as CPAN or easy-to-install third-party libs such as Ruby's gems do make sense, and are also great assets to a language not to be underestimated, but stdlib functions just give much more (potentially misguided though) confidence about quality, and they create common idioms across the language.

It is good to finally see inline conditions such as:

print ( "first option" if a==b else "second option" )