[Pydotorg-redesign] Dropping language comparisons

[A.M. Kuchling]

The material at doc/Comparisons.html is all pretty elderly. I don't
think we can devote the effort to keep it up to date, and few of us
can claim to be Tcl/Perl/Lisp/whatever experts anyway.

If marketing-python wants to someday write something, fine, but for
now IMHO this page should simply be dropped. Objections?

--amk

[Skip Montanaro]

amk> If marketing-python wants to someday write something, fine, but for
amk> now IMHO this page should simply be dropped. Objections?

No particular objections except to note that the issue of language
comparisons does come up from time-to-time. (It's a relevant question to
ask if you're coming to Python from some other language.)

This sounds like Wiki material to me. Perhaps we should solicit a volunteer
from c.l.py to create and manage a section of the Wiki devoted to language
comparisons.

Skip

[Kevin Altis]

From: Skip Montanaro
amk> If marketing-python wants to someday write something,
fine, but for
amk> now IMHO this page should simply be dropped. Objections?
No particular objections except to note that the issue of language
comparisons does come up from time-to-time. (It's a relevant question to
ask if you're coming to Python from some other language.)
This sounds like Wiki material to me. Perhaps we should solicit
a volunteer
from c.l.py to create and manage a section of the Wiki devoted to language
comparisons.

This question is raised so frequently, that despite some of the material
being old, it is better than nothing. So I vote for leaving the Comparisons
page in place and updating if possible, dropping any links that seem
particularly misleading. Last week Stephen Ferg posted a new doc:

"Java and Python Side-by-Side Comparison - discusses the reasons why
programmers can be more productive in Python than in Java."

http://www.ferg.org/projects/python_java_side-by-side.html

There are also some relatively new pro Python articles like

Which Language Do You Recommend? by Paul Baranowski

http://peek-a-booty.org/Docs/WhichLanguageDoYouRecommend.htm

We have to have something to point people at and it is easier to modify than
to create something from scratch.

ka