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[Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>]

On Thursday 09 October 2003 11:59 pm, Paul Mahon wrote:
> No, Python is soo amaturish. We should use Java and change the
> simpleinit scripts to XML.

Now you're just trolling ;-) but in case you mean it I'll bite:

1. Python is ugly, but it's not amaturish. Java on the other hand has some 
fundamental issues that I certainly do consider amaturish: filename must 
equal class name is the big one. That causes huge headaches for developers  - 
because renaming a class means renaming the file. That's OK when you're on 
your own but in a team it's tough because renames are much harder than normal 
edits to merge.

Ruby is far cleaner than both Python and Java.

2. Simpleinit is _simple_, XML is anything but. I'll stick with simpleinit 
thanks. IMHO, XML has one great use-case (apart from HTML) and that is 
data-exchange. Everywhere else I've seen it used something simpler would have 
been better.

Tony