On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 16:13:16 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > Ah, I see, that the sillyness of Perl's grammar-altering modules (which > let you write Perl in Latin (with proper declensions and conjugations, > of course) or Chinese) has found its way to Python >
To tell the truth, I only installed it to test whether it works. I am an old Perl hack forced to learn Python by the market forces. I learned Perl in 1994 which means that it is my first love of a sort. The fundamental difference between the two languages is that Perl is procedural while Python is a fully OO language. Discussion of Perl vs Python necessarily devolves into the discussion of procedural vs OO paradigms. And that has been decided long time ago, with the advent of Java over COBOL. Market has spoken and I had to learn Python. So, I stopped worrying and learned to love Python. Any resemblance to the subtitle of "Dr. Strangelove" is purely accidental. BTW, Visual Studio Code uses pylint to evaluate my adherence to PEP8 and there is a "kite" extension with autocompletion. Nothing like that was ever available for Perl. It certainly is easier to write Python scripts than to write Perl scripts. I do sort of miss $_, @_ and $!. Python's argparse is supreme and much better than Getopt::Long. -- Mladen Gogala Database Consultant http://mgogala.byethost5.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list