Hello!
This is very interesting thread. So, let me add some words to this. (Sorry in advance my English).
Best of all, let me express my respect to Mr. Schwartz. I read your Lama-book and I think that's very useful for every Perl newbie. I got such chain: Lama-book, Camel-book and Cook-book :).
I love Perl and work with it more often than Python, but...
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
This is no serious statement. Python is simple and power too. Read please Bruce Eckel why he left Perl and came to Python."Gavin" == Gavin Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gavin> I really like Perl, but lately everywhere I seem to go and talk Gavin> to say I shouldn't be learning Perl as it's old and Python is Gavin> better.
Perl is more powerful. Python is simpler. Python is for people
who don't want to master a language -- just use it casually.
At least, it's really object-oriented as against Perl and it has more funny syntax :).
Python community is large too (of course not yet as perl community because it's more young), and it grows too. Let me know please why this is a good - such enormous modules number for one task? In this case I'd like to think noone from them is clever and bugs free. That's enough one or two clever modules like in Python, that even could be included into standart distribution.However, if you're gonna spend two or more hours a day hacking code, Perl is definitely the right place to be. Still.
Those Python weenies are all just casual programmers complaining that for Perl, "with great power comes great responsibility". Let'em.
Perl's support only grows. I used to be able to follow the CPAN "new
modules list" by examining the daily run at search.cpan.org/recent.
But no more. Look at all the new modules just in the past *seven*
days. (It's typically a full web page for each day!) If that doesn't
show you an intense activity in the Perl community, I really don't
know what else I could show you.
Ask your Python friends where such a similar list exists. :)
Python may be newer, but Perl is more mature, and here to stay.
Remember "new coke", and how long we had that. (If you're old enough to remember that fiasco.)
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