[Gllug] Perl Question - Spam Filter for NMS Form Mail

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Fri Feb 13 11:08:35 UTC 2009


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:22:46AM +0000, Aaron Trevena wrote:
> 2009/2/10  <damion.yates at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I liked Learning Perl, so I as I have to do Python these days, bought a
> > copy of Learning Python.  I got bored about 1inch / 1000 pages in, after
> > it still hadn't started to teach me about python and was STILL going on
> > and on about how great python is and how it's better than perl (it
> > ACTUALLY says that!).
> 
> That is annoyingly pervasive in python users, it's probably a tiny
> (but noisy, obnoxious. and self congratulatory) minority, but it still
> gets on your wick some times.

I like to class Python, as 'The VisualBasic' of the Linux world. Great
for writing toys, not great for serious work;-P I seriously regret writing
virt-manager in python now. It allowed me to get something pretty working
very quickly, but it has been a long term maintainence disaster of horrific
proportions.


Daniel
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