[Yum] yumgengroups.py

Michael Stenner mstenner at phy.duke.edu
Mon Sep 22 18:44:34 UTC 2003


On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:24:02AM -0700, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 15:52, seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks to Jeff Sheltren for posting a perl program that did the same
> > thing. Nothing like a little spite to cause you to take action :)
> > 
> > I've also posted Jeff's script at:
> > http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/misc/yumgroups.pl
> > 
> Hahaha, I didn't realize you hated perl so much ;)  Thanks for the
> mention and posting my script though.

Python has a way of doing that to people.  Perl and Python are nearly
opposites philosophically.  I programmed quite a bit of perl and was
quite fluent before I grudgingly investigated python.  It was only a
few months before I was porting my perl tools to python.  You should
check it out.
					-Michael

DISCLAIMER: I'm not trying to start a flame-war.  I'm not suggesting
that python is "better" than perl.  Frankly, I'd suggest that people
who've only written python should take a look at perl.  As always, I'm
not interested in comparisons from people who haven't spent months (at
least) programming in both, mostly because the stuff I wrote when I
was in that state was embarrassingly incorrect or naive.
-- 
  Michael Stenner                       Office Phone: 919-660-2513
  Duke University, Dept. of Physics       mstenner at phy.duke.edu
  Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305



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