On Thursday 29 March 2001 07:16, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> I know this is a stupid question, but I am very new to Linux and I
> know nothing about script programming. What is the difference between
> perl and pyton? Why the nedd to create these two diferent programming
> languages?
Oh boy, you may get more than you bargained for with a question like
that. :}
First, there are many different programming languages, created to serve
different needs. Just as there is C and C++ and Java and Fortran.
Each has its strengths and weaknesses.
Personally I think of the difference between Perl and Python as
somewhat analogous to the difference between C and C++. Perl has many
of the virtues, and many of the shortcomings, of C. I think of Python
as trying to answer some of the shortcomings of Perl in much the same
way that C++ tries to answer the shortcomings of C. Perl hackers, put
your hackles back down. I'm not qualified to debate this subject,
these are my impressions only.
Here are a couple of links that might help.
http://www.perl.com/pub/language/versus/python.html
http://www.python.org/doc/essays/comparisons.html
http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/3882.html
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