Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:07:40 +0100, D wrote:
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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:
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1. Backwards compatibility. Much better than python.

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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.
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https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/programming-the-perl/1565926994/
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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.
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I did appreciate the concept of a uniform DBI with specific DBDs in the
back end.
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2. The built in documentation.

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

The problem with python is the quality of the ecosystem and the 2 to 3 shift. I find the quality of python libraries lower than in perl. But I imagine that is due to there simply being more of them, and that it is a "live" language. Perhaps I found the quality better in perl, since the libraries that remain are old and mature.