There is an interesting article and discussion about this scripting language war. Here is a comment posted by a (former) Perl programmer: --------------------------------------- It's sort of like a really clean C++ with the convenience of Perl. I would HIGHLY recommend Python as being something you need to learn and start using! I mean, Perl is good for hacking stuff together because you know how to do it in Perl. Even Bash is good for that.. But Python really gives you a good feeling that you are architecting something that is made to work, made to last, and made to be maintainable. And Python is extremely good for quick Perl-ish hack jobs. Maybe Perl (in reference to an above post) is for artists, but I think Python is for designers. Know which one you are, before you do anything else. ---------------------------------------- http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/16/1729227&mode=flat Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+