Re: Why Python When There Is Perl?

On 22 Mar 2024 01:46:48 GMT, rbowman wrote:

Yes you can, but my point was somebody else did all the grunt work to
allow you to do it in a few lines of Python. TANSTAAFL.

That “lunch” cost somebody, say, $1,000 of their time to create. As Open
Source, it can be reused by a million people. Divide up the cost by that
factor, and you see that it comes as close to free as to be rounding
error.

In economics, there is this distinction between “fixed cost” and “marginal
cost”. The “marginal cost” of Open Source software is essentially zero.