Re: New VSI post on Youtube

In article <vadndu$1igfq$1@dont-email.me>, ldo@nz.invalid (Lawrence
D'Oliveiro) wrote:

On the other hand, Perl has a lot of subtleties to it that I never
quite understood. When I started learning Python, I found that was
just as powerful, but so much easier to understand.

The two languages are fine examples of different kinds of "simplicity".

Perl has a smaller vocabulary of keywords, but they can be used in a vast
range of combinations.

Python has a huge vocabulary, but the keywords do pretty specific things,
and until you learn the keywords for an idiom or pattern, you can't use
that pattern.

I find Python frustrating, because the documentation is so determined to
tell you about the way in which keywords differ in various versions of
the language that I have trouble finding the keywords I need for a task.
The language has so many keywords that I'm not really interested in
learning all of them at my advanced age.

Perl feels like C to me; Python feels like Basic or COBOL.

John