Question about development languages

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs.toronto.edu>:
> > One thing I found about Python is that it's quite easy to write
> > Python code on the first day, and it's the best choice for GUI
> > apps.  But it's by no means a good replacement for sophisticated
> > shell scripts. (correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> I'm an expert shell programmer.

Needless to say ;)

> But since I started using Python, I no
> longer use shell for anything with control structure in it.  One liners,
> yes, but anything more complex seems to me to be more natural as a
> Python program.  Nothing new about this; Perl fans say the same thing
> about Perl.

Here's my scenario:  Am writing something called crs, which uses
cvs and find extensively.  I'm writing in Python, but found it
really hard to run cvs and find from there, handling the outputs,
... all the time.  I couldn't find any PyCVS module, if you are
going to suggest that.

So do you suggest writing something like /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit in
Python?

behdad