[MacPerl] An 'alternative' to Larry Wall... (20Mar00)

[Keith Trenton <kazemori@earthlink.net>]

Christopher,

I think you've probably heard sufficient advice [good] on the
wisdom of contacting Larry [or rather, researching his ideas
on the web]. In addition to Larry Wall and the Perl language
here's an alternative [in almost every way imaginable... = )]:

    Guido van Rossum and the Python Language

    http://www.python.org/~guido/index.html

Guido will almost certainly answer you, if you email him. He
reads to be [in my humble opinion] a bit of a megalomaniac.

He believes his language [Python...] to be the best of all PC
languages and has a vision in which all the world's schools
teach Python to children [in fact, he's trying to persuade the
U.S. government to start up his new world order financially]

Read for yourself... It's the modern - and postmodern worlds
in a nutshell [sorry, O'Reilly]. BTW...Python runs on the Mac;
Apple uses Python [sparingly...] in current Mac OS releases
[Apple also uses Perl; check out OS X and 'Carbon Dating'].

OK, I took you literally and rambled on like a leaking tanker!

Good luck to you in your research!


Keith


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