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!