On 29 Aug 2000 13:02:56 -0500, Cameron Laird <claird / starbase.neosoft.com> wrote: > In article <399F7F7A.46272FE3 / austin.ibm.com>, > Conrad Schneiker <schneik / austin.ibm.com> wrote: > . > >Does anyone know the answer to this question for Perl and Python? > . > No. No one knows. > > I'll probably have a few slivers of time I can put over the > next month to researching similar frontier points for Python > and Perl. Do people care about these kinds of results? I think so. One of the questions we face is "why not just use Ruby?" The size of the code and of the development effort shouldn't be a constraint. Speed of execution or lack of connectivity (solid CORBA, perhaps an RMI gateway, etc.) are probably reasonable excuses in certain circumstances, but "because it's a big project" shouldn't be. /\ndy -- Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC. Innovative Object-Oriented Software Development web: http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com email: andy / pragmaticprogrammer.com -- Books by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas: "The Pragmatic Programmer" (Addison-Wesley 2000) "Programming Ruby" (Addison-Wesley 2001) --