Shlomi Fish wrote on 2003-11-03:
> Now, for the choice of language:
>
> Perl - my favourite language (;-)). There's more than one way to do it.
> Very flexible. A lot of different ways to accomplish the same thing. Some
> people love it. Some people hate it. You can't know until you've tried.
>
> Python - a language I dislike quite a bit. One way to do it. Powerful and
> object oriented. Lacks some essential Perl features and syntax elements,
> because "no one needs them" (to quote Moshe Zadka). I was told that it is
> more suitable for GUIs than Perl is.
>
> You'll hear a lot of FUD against Perl from Pythoneers, so you have been
> warned.
>
I beg to differ. You will not hear that much Uncertainty or
Disinformation about Perl from Pythonistas. You will cetainly hear
Fear. It's not a lie (as calling it FUD would imply), it's a
thruthful (though subjective) observation by most Pythonistas that we
find reading Perl very difficult. Hence we fear Perl code 8-{...
Whether you should conclude from this that Perl is bad for *you* -
only you can decide.
> You'll also hear a lot of FUD against Perl and everything else
> from Java bigots. I'll probably use either Perl, Python or Ruby if I were
> you. Either language will be fine.
>
If it would comfort anybody, I can give him as much anti-Java opinions
as anti-Perl ones or more ;-).
--
Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
C++ is the root of premature optimization.
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