Re: Thoughts on the future direction of OfflineIMAP

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, and I too am a Perl-to-Python convert.

FWIW, it appears that Perl's threads are not any better than Python's, so as
a way of solving this problem, it's probably not going to do it.

-- John

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:50:41AM -0400, Martijn Pieters wrote:
> I'll assume John's reasons for this are the same as mine: Perl is simply not
> suitable for large projects due to it's tendency to become unmaintainable. I
> know that with extensive style rules you can mitigate this somewhat, but
> Perl's syntax and There Is More Than One Way To Do It philosophy are working
> against it when scaling beyond simple programs.
> 
> FOr what it is worth: I am a Perl-to-Python convert. I have worked on large
> Perl projects and I am more productive for the switch.
> 
> -- 
> Martijn Pieters
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