>> surely you do not believe one must learn a language inside out before knowing whether it is appropriate to a domain. You had a hard opinion about something

>> surely you do not believe one must learn a language inside out before knowing whether it is appropriate to a domain. You had a hard opinion about something you admitted you don't know. That is just not a serious position. >>We're talking about the cost/benefit of flexibility Of course it has a cost with flexibility. The same goes for lisp variants, which have an even larger flexibility than Perl in the macro system. Since you claim to know many other systems than Python, you should know this...? Every design choice have costs/benefits. You don't need to repeat that trivial point as if it is news. (That you think another OO system is better without knowing both says more about you than anything else.) And now you argue that because you (allegedly) know other stuff, your opinion is relevant? (Why don't you go argue that the flexibility of easily reprogrammable syntax is bad with Lisp people instead? If Perl is bad according to you, their life must be Hell?) (And fyi, re niches, all the scripting languages are very similar in capabilities and fill mostly the same niche. That is why we see so many language wars trolls from the aggressive language communities. But I think you know this.)