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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> python-list
python-list
RE: python development practices?
by Tim Peters other posts by this author
Oct 31 2001 5:29AM messages near this date
Re: python development practices? | Re: python development practices?
[Paul Rubin]
>  ...
>  IMO a bunch of the frustration I sometimes feel with Python comes
>  from its originally being intended as a "glue" language.  It's too
>  good for that, and finds itself used as a work horse or even a race
>  horse.  Neither type of horse belongs in the glue factory ;-).

Oooh -- good one!  If Andrew doesn't add it to his Python Quotes collection,
I get first dibs on passing it off as my own <wink> .


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