SLAC is heavily oriented to Perl. Perl is pretty mature and probably more widespread than Python. It was decided to go ahead with Perl. Also looking at Java especially for visualization. Do we need to use a CVS code management system.
Most code is developed by a single person.
We agreed to use CVS when a code management system is needed . It will be archived. May require a redesign of the infrastructure. Correlate ping and traceping. Frank will look at this.