Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024, Rich wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 24/11/2024 14:37, Rich wrote:

186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

   Whatever it is, at least use Python if for no other
   reason than that it's generally comprehensible.

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Oh good lord no.  The amount for which you hate Perl is the amount that
I despise Python.
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I can't say a good word for either, having never written a line in
either, I am disnclined to learn.

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I've written quick scripts (and not so quick scripts for Perl) in both.
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I prefer neither, but given a choice between only Perl or Python would
prefer Perl (unless Python had a required library interface available
that Perl did not).
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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.
2. The built in documentation.