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On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Kaushal Shriyan > <kaushalshri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> Is it better to learn Perl or Python since i can manage only writing >> simple bash shell scripts. >> >> Please suggest/guide. >> >> Thanks and Regards >> >> Kaushal > > You are coming to a perl list and asking whether you should learn Perl > or Python but provide no other unformation. > > There are a number of things wrong with this question. > 1) You seem to be indicating that you could learn only one or the > other but not both > 2) You leave out other useful languages > 3) You provide no indication of the types of things you want to do - > so we can not help you choose a language that is best suited for your > project. No No language is "better" than any other. They each have > strong points and weak points. These points change depending on what > you plan on doing. The real question to ask is: Right now, for this > project, given my time constraints and resource restrictions what is > best for me? > 4) If you are already coding shell scripts it is likely that you will > find Perl easier to learn but if you learn python it will help you to > write good clean code more easily and learning is not that difficult. > Another possibility is to learn C++. You already know a scripting > language - so it might be worthwhile to learn a lower level language. > > It all comes down to: what do you want to do with the new language. > Perhaps if you give us some more details we might be able to better > help you. > > > > -- > Eitan Adler > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- Bob Goolsby bob.gool...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
