Thorsten Kampe <thors...@thorstenkampe.de> writes: > * Chris Angelico (Wed, 25 May 2011 08:01:38 +1000) >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:39 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> wrote: >> > One of my favorite quotes (not sure if it was about Perl or APL) is > "I >> > refuse to use a programming language where the proponents of it stick >> > snippets under each other's nose and say 'I bet you can't guess what >> > this does.'" >> >> Yes, I believe that was Perl. And an amusing quote. But most of the >> point of it comes from the fact that Perl uses punctuation for most of >> its keywords, whereas (say) Python uses English words; it's a lot more >> fun to crunch something down when you can use $| and friends than when >> you have to put "x and y", complete with spaces, for a simple boolean. >> But that says nothing about which language is actually better for >> working with... [...] > > It does say something about readibility. And yes, "readability counts". > And yes, readability says a lot about how good a language is for reading > and working with.
To people used to the latin alphabet languages using a different script are unreadable. So readability has a lot to do with what one is used to. Like I already stated before: if Python is really so much better than Python readability wise, why do I have such a hard time dropping Perl and moving on? -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Perl Consultancy: http://castleamber.com/ Perl for books: http://johnbokma.com/perl/help-in-exchange-for-books.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
