I'm a newbie of programming and want to know the differences between these 2 tools. I believe every newbie is curious to know the truth instead of some junk posts online.
What's the big deal to compare these 2 languages? Simply because this is an old topic? > On Oct 26, 2013, at 5:08 PM, "John SJ Anderson" <geneh...@genehack.org> wrote: > > Hi. This is the _Perl_ beginners list. > > Python advocacy is very much off-topic. If you'd like to stay and talk > about Perl programming, please do. If you'd like to advocate for > Python, please take that conversation some where else. > > thanks, > john, > the perl-beginners list mom. > >> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 4:28 AM, <htchd...@live.com> wrote: >> How about python? >> Many people consider it's better than Perl and it becomes more and more >> popular. >> >> On Oct 26, 2013, at 7:23 AM, "Bob goolsby" <bob.gool...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> "Learning Perl", Schwartz, Phoenix, defoy, and others, (AKA The Llama Book) >> is the best introductory book on Perl. The book is entertaining, >> enlightening, and in it's sixth edition -- it's that good. >> >> Perl will change how you look at Computer languages. There are two mottoes >> in the Perl World: "There's More That One Way To Do It (TMTOWTDI, >> pronoounced Tim Toady), and "Make easy things simple and hard things >> possible". Perl was the first languageI ever encountered where the Language >> did not get in the way of implementing solutions. It has just enough >> 'boiler plate' -- syntax that has to be there to keep the Compiler happy, to >> prevent a Perl program from disolving into an unreadable mush of characters >> (here's looking at you Ken Ivorson). Once you get comfortable with Perl, >> most every other Language feels clunky and contrived. >> >> Perl tries to stay out of the way and let you concentrate onwriting >> solutions to problems. >> >> Welcome to the Zoo, where we keep the strange and wonderous creatures! >> >> >> B >> >> >> >>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayur...@kathe.in> wrote: >>> >>> hi, this is my first mail to this list, and the first time i'll be >>> working with perl. >>> >>> i've been searching for books on learning and mastering perl and found >>> the series by o'reilly to be quite well recommended. >>> >>> would i be right in my assumption about the o'reilly books being good? >>> if not, are there any better books out there, for a newbie to perl and >>> for someone returning to programming after a gap of more than 7 years. >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> ~mayuresh >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/ > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
