[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Whitebox GAT (Chris Puttick)

[P Kishor]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
<tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:
> P Kishor wrote:
>> Listen, I personally appreciate the zeal for open sourcing software
>> and data (most of my personal religion is based on the belief that
>> open data are better for everyone), but trash talking closed software
>> makes the whole world blind.
>
> Of course we never trash talk other open source languages either, do we?
>  Where would we be without all the good arguments for Python vs the
> 'others'... ;-)  Sorry, couldn't resist.
>
> Just to say, we have done pretty good on this list avoiding platform or
> language wars, but I am interested to learn what
> strengths/features/ease-of-use others find in their language of choice.
>   Just to be better educated, not to flame anyone.
>


It will lead to religious wars inevitably... weaknesses and strengths
of language are probably better discussed on specific language forums.
Probably other forums are appropriate, but OSGeo-discuss is too
generic for it, imo.

That said, I am finding Python advocates increasingly insufferable;
their wonder at "look at this wonderful thing I discovered I can do"
bores me to tears, and their enthusiasm for white space in code that
    actually
  means something
              is just
bewildering.

;-)


-- 
just another hacker of a language whose name begins with P