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Jeff Hill <[email protected]> · Wed, 05 Feb 1997 10:19:10 -0700

Richard Wolff wrote:

> Hmmm...looks like a suitable challenge here.  I'll try to do something
> on this with Python in the next week, after the current bits of chaos
> around here are scheduled to subside.

If you get started on this we should make sure that you are working
with the same version of EPICS as Kay. We have recently 
(this fall) moved some of the shell based stuff into gnu make.

Sorry to go ahead with a perl prototype prior to the end 
of the discussion. We must move quickly because Kay's last 
day here is Feb 21 (after which he is returning to Germany) 
- and he is the only one of us that really knows perl at 
this point. Also, if this change makes it into 3.13 then 
the NT port will be much easier to install, and we are very 
close to making an official release of 3.13.

At this point there are a fairly small number of scripts that
need to be replaced. As I recall Kay mentioned that he has
3 days into this so far.

I think that it is safe to say that the advantages of object 
oriented programming are most relevant to large projects with
many lines of code. Do you see a practical advantage of python 
over perl considering that most of the projects written in 
scripting languages are likely to be smaller in scope?

Can anyone else comment on there preference/tolerance/revulsion
of/for python before Richard gets started?

Jeff

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