Perl Lisp Guile Lua The world is full of scripting languages. I am really only familiar with Perl - but Perl 5 programmes I wrote in 1997 run today. There

Perl Lisp Guile Lua The world is full of scripting languages. I am really only familiar with Perl - but Perl 5 programmes I wrote in 1997 run today. There is actually not a lot special about Python. It is a scripting language. Any vaguely modern (post 1990) scripting language would have all the qualities you attribute to Python. What is special about Python is the Python central committee does not care of your code does not run, and many package maintainers write code that takes 2G to do what we once did in 40k. Why should they care? It seems only I care. I have seen this cost real money. It has cost me, personally, real money. Not to get too technical, but it is shit.