Mike Meyer wrote: > "Simon John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I still love Perl, it's a bit of an art form, as "there's more than >> one way to do it", whereas Python usually only allows one way to do >> it, which may or may not be a better mantra.... > > The Python mantra leads to 1) less programmer overhead, and 2) faster > improvements in the language. > > To be a Perl expert, you have to know which of the many ways to do > various things is the fasted under what conditions.
Why? > Python programmers > seldom have to worry about that - there's usually only one [obvious] > way to do things, so you just do it that way. I doubt that :-D. I have never seen a programming language that forced me in such a way :-D. > Having only one obvious way I doubt that too ;-) > to do things means developers only have to > worry about impact on that way when making improvements, which will > speed them up. Yeah, Perl programmers are extremely slow ;-) > The problem these days is that there are now multiple ways to do a > variety of things, because we have the "new, pythonic" way and the > "old, backwards-compatible way". So it's no longer clear which is the > fastest - In most cases, why worry? If speed is an issue you should probably have picked a different programming language in the first place (for that part of the code). > and in the case of generators versus list comprehensions, > it's not clear which you should be using. To bad. Use the one that is the easiest to read and understand by yourself. That's how I program Perl, and that's how I am going to program Python. An overloaded toolbox doesn't mean that if you have to hang a painting on the wall that you have to think for 6 hours which tool you should use. You just take the one that does the job in a way you feel comfortable with. I know that the Perl mantra is often misunderstood, but in my experience only by people who have very little experience with the language. -- John MexIT: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/ personal page: http://johnbokma.com/ Experienced programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
