Eric Raymond's views on Python and Perl

I agree with him: Perl is great for small (100 lines, or so) programs that do text parsing. Python is really good for begin able to understand code (yours, and others) -- and understanding How Things (including the language) Work..

Did I mention that it's fast to write? I wrote a script that checks a directory that's going to be inputed into a CVS Repository. It checks several things (old "CVS" folders -- removing them if found, filename characters that CVS doesn't like, maybe more.. I don't remember)

This script probably took me 4-6 hours, but I "lost" maybe 2-3 of those because I'm still learning the language. And at least one more because of what i suspect is a bug in os.rmdir() on OS 9 (or my hard drive... could be either )