hi ari, <br>perl is my first choice in general projects, there's nothing to compete with cpan. however, with projects like gdal, openEV, python cartographics library, i get the feeling that there's just more GIS stuff going on in python--i'll go where there's support. (though the answer to my python q with a perl example sorta negates that...)
<br>oh and even the arc9 python api sweetens the deal. <br>libs: well mapserver for one. it's swigged, yes but not many Q's on the mapserver list for perl mapscript. i use php for that becuase of the support though i'd switch to python for that as well. just compare the number of scripts in the examples directory for python and perl in your mapserver source...
<br> -brent<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ari Jolma</b> <<a href="mailto:ari.jolma@tkk.fi">ari.jolma@tkk.fi</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Brent Pedersen kirjoitti:<br>> plus, i'm just switching from perl to python to take advantage of the<br>> greater number of GIS libs.<br><br>As someone who is interested in the usability of Perl in geoinformatics,<br>
I'd like to ask you to elaborate this a bit. What libs are you<br>especially missing?<br><br>Ari<br><br>--<br>Prof. Ari Jolma<br>Kartografia ja Geoinformatiikka / Cartography and Geoinformatics<br>Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology
<br>tel: +358 9 451 3886 address: POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland<br>Email: ari.jolma at <a href="http://tkk.fi">tkk.fi</a> URL: <a href="http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma">http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma</a><br></blockquote></div><br>