The Python paradox.
I have been using Python for XML processing since they days when XML was called SGML. I provided Python code samples in a book I wrote 8 (!) years ago:
SGML for software developers.
The reason I moved to Python for my work was that I could do more, do it faster, modify it more easily and maintain it afterwards, with Python than with any other language.
Looking back on it, I was lucky to have very little time or money on hand to develop what I needed to develop at the time.
I knew from bitter experience that C++ would take too long to write/debug. I knew from bitter experience that Perl would prove impossible to maintain. Out of sheer necessity I went looking for a solution, found Python, and the rest is history.
Necessity is the reason I chose Python.
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