gstorme opened this issue on Oct 04, 2002 ยท 4 posts
ockham posted Fri, 04 October 2002 at 11:31 AM
I don't know what influenced CL's decision; maybe they had somebody who knew Python and nobody who knew Perl. But one -possible- advantage is that Python seems to be a little more number-oriented, while Perl is more string-oriented. There are definitely more special libraries available for Python in numerical and graphical areas. (Try googling for "Perl numerical" and you'll find mostly Python numerical pages that happen to mention Perl somewhere on the page!)