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> It's great that it's improving, but many other languages have a much better library/API situation than Python has had for years already. As someone who has s
by briancurtin 15y ago
> It's great that it's improving, but many other languages have a much better library/API situation than Python has had for years already.
As someone who has spent the last 5.5 years at a job where I didn't need anything but the standard library, I don't agree. What are these other languages that contain a better situation?
- pnathan 15y agoWell, Perl's CPAN has an uninstall feature. That's kind of nice.
- njharman 15y agocpan is very much not a std lib. PyPi is equiv.
- prakashk 15y agoDepends on what your definition of "std lib" is. If you say a "std lib" is something that is installed along with the language, then CPAN fits the bill. $ corelist CPAN CPAN was first released with perl 5.004
- kc5tja 15y agoThat's more of a standard tool, not a standard library. Rather, a library is a collection of reusable components. A Standard Library, then, are pre-equipped collections of reusable components. Here, we define "reusable" as invokable from within the language, as first-class constructs. Even if CPAN was a standard library, that which you install from it is clearly not, which is what the argument to date has centered around.