On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:22 AM, <skrab...@comcast.net> wrote: > Is Python easier to learn that Perl? When we get new developers into > our group, the new developer will need to get up to speed on the tools > in our arsenal. >
I haven't had any experience with teaching myself Perl, but I would say yes based on what I do know. One of Perl's philosophies is that there are more than one way to do one thing. Python's philosophy is that there really should be one obvious way of doing something. And from my minimal experience with reading Perl code (and a few modifications) and decent experience reading (and modifying) other's Python code, Python is tremendously easier - especially on those new to the language. Here's an interesting source: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PerlPhrasebook HTH, Wayne -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t. - Primo Levi
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