> Can you please explain to me advantages of Python in comparison
> with PERL?
Uh oh, here comes a religious war :-) The following are all in my humble
opinion, as a Perl user since 1990ish and a Python user for three years,
both on "real world" projects (major SGML/database integration work). Flames
to /dev/null...
>From my perspective, as a user of both Perl and Python, I'd say that Python
scores over Perl in a few areas:
- Cleaner, more consistent syntax
- Better object orientation
- Better support for XML (although this is down to development efforts,
rather than a weakness of Perl)
Perl wins out on the following:
- Quicker to produce disposable scripts
- Rgeular expression handling
- Syntax is often more concise, but at the cost of clarity
There's no overriding reason to jump ship. If Perl does what you need, fine,
but I would suggest at least looking at Python to see what the fuss is all
about :-)
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