On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Fillmore <fillmore_rem...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I learned myself Perl as a scripting language over two decades ago. All > through this time, I would revert to it from time to time whenever I needed > some text manipulation and data analysis script. > > My problem? maybe I am stupid, but each time I have to go back and re-learn > the syntax, the gotchas, the references and the derefercing, the different > syntax between Perl 4 and Perl 5, that messy CPAN in which every author > seems to have a different ideas of how things should be done....
I know what you mean about Perl. I have probably re-learned Perl 12 times. If you will not need to maintain any existing code, go directly to Python 3.x. Not every third-party support Python 3 yet, but it is coming for most. If you can eschew 2.x, then do. Maintaining a source base targeting both 2.x and 3.x can be done, but it is not always a simple picture. Learning a new language at 45 is a great idea. Do it again at 65. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
