On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 14:43 -0800, J Kenneth King wrote: > Linuxguy123 <linuxguy...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I just started using python last week and I'm addicted. > > > > I hate Perl. I never did learn to use it with any competence. I has to > > be the most obfuscated, cryptic language I've ever seen. Making it > > "object oriented" only makes it worse ! > > .. <snip> .. > > I program full-time in Python, so I share your excitement and > enthusiasm. But bashing Perl like that doesn't make you sound very > smart. I'm probably one of the very few Python programmers who came from > (and still occassionally) use Perl.
Really? I think many many python programmers cut their teeth on Perl. I for one. I loved programming in it when I did, but I hate having to try to understand OPP. Now, when I deal with Perl, it's mostly legacy code, and it's a miserable experience. > I've written non-trivial programs in > it and from my experience I can tell you that it's actually a great > language. The Moose object system is well beyond Python's class > system. But I guess you wouldn't know that. > > So yay for Python, but don't get in the habit of criticising that which > you do not know. There are legitimate reasons to criticize things even when they are powerful. Cheers, Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list