Hey /prog/riders, I wish to learn a new language but I can't decide which one I want. What are the pros and cons of Perl and Python, which do you prefer and why, which is more popular and what will I mostly use each language for? Thanks in advance.
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Anonymous2009-04-20 2:14
Perl is a great language for system administration under *nix systems, although it suffers from past legacy (example: dictionary can contain only references, that's bad), and it's quite inconsistent on the syntactical point of view.
I suggest you to learn Python: as it's a modern language it's far more well designed.
Nevertheless Perl is good if you need to mess up with scripts wrote by other programmers: there's still a lot of software written in perl!
This thread pertains to programming
Yes, "Science of Computer programming" is for things pertaining to programming too, are you going to go and submit this thread to the editorial board? /prog/ is in a class above /pr/, I advised you to take this thread there because it is where it belongs, regardless of whether or not it constitutes programming discussion, much like Donald Knuth would tell one of us to go back to /prog/ if we submitted a paper "On optimal random BBCode formatting generation for variable length strings" to Transactions on Algorithms.
Well I would think you guys would give me a better answer because I see the denizens of this board helpful and intellegent, and it receives a fair amount of traffic even at this time of night.
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Anonymous2009-04-20 2:44
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Hey, probably it's because here it's morning.
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Anonymous2009-04-20 3:10
denizens of this board helpful
Where did you get that impression?
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Anonymous2009-04-20 3:57
On optimal random BBCode formatting generation for variable length strings
You've inspired me to try writing this.
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Anonymous2009-07-21 2:54
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