On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:31 AM, rob levy<r.p.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Python still seems like a less powerful Perl pretending to be a more > advanced and "cleaned up" Perl.
well it's in a sense both, but most people never see what it's missing. The full power of pure closures is most useful to framework and metatool designers, and rarely understood by others. There's a reason most non-academic languages don't bother. But without closures we never would have kept Damian. TIMTOWDI is a virtue to Larry and to Perl community. It's the original sin to Guido. The redundancy of keywords and braces lets perl give us useful syntax errors, Python relies on their equivalent of perltidy to find out if they mashed something; having used a structured Fortran that almost worked that way, I can see the appeal, but it's not what i am used to. With compromised wrists, I can see the attraction of a language with more letters less punctuation. The Gnu/Linux distros converging on Python as replacement for cfg, *sh, perl, VB have desire for one solution that covers a span from simplest configs to fairly complex coding, one that won't scare someone advised to tweak a constant. They aren't required to support Damian / PurpleWizard grade magic. Having an enforced One True Way style is in their world a feature. > I definitely prefer Python over PHP though, > which is just a *******d cousin of Perl. modulo the unPC adjective, exactly its history, the author built his own web server in Perl and then to get Mod_perl / fast_cgi speed reimplemented only those things he'd used in C. > But Perl is much more expressive > and powerful being designed by a linguist has its definite benefits. For those of us who see expressiveness in all its meanings as good in coding. Of course it's that very expressiveness that lends it to JAPH and Golf and dueling style wars. -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
