Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:07:40 +0100, D wrote:

I dabbled a bit in perl out of curiosity and I find the following two
points to be in its favour:
 
1. Backwards compatibility. Much better than python.

Well, that's true. Looking over at the bookshelf I see 'Programming the
Perl DBI' from 2000. It probably works just as well in 5.40.0 as it did in
5.6.0.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-the-perl/1565926994/

There isn't a newer version. That's remarkable for close to 25 years. Most
of my other books from 2000 are suitable for propping up mismatched table
legs.

I did appreciate the concept of a uniform DBI with specific DBDs in the
back end.

2. The built in documentation.

Python offers a lot of built in documentation, assuming the modules follow
the PEP guidelines.