Re: Scripting language takes a silicon turn

[Boyko Bantchev <boykobb@...>]

On 1/24/06, Vijay Aswadhati <wyseman@pacbell.net> wrote:
> FYI:
> http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177101584
>
> Seems to me that the major design choice in picking Python is based
> on the availablity of 'generators'. I only dabbled in Python a long
> time ago; I wonder what is so 'brilliant' about Python....

I do wonder about that myself.
I am also puzzled by the following: is it that I tend to dislike
some languages because they are overly hyped, or is it simply
because I find them non-aesthetic and/or uninspiring?
For scripting, I would always pick one of Icon, Lua, Rexx,
Ruby, but not Perl or Python.