On Wednesday 25 May 2005 11:03 am, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 09:02, Claude Jones wrote: > > What do you guys think? > > I think perl was really designed to be your second program language - > that is, the one you turn to when sh, awk, sed, etc. don't quite handle > the problem you want to solve - instead of being the one you learn > first. As such, you'd already understand programming concepts, > regular expressions and have a favorite style that perl can mimic > closely. Python people like to make fun of the perl concept that > "there's more than one way to do it", but you'll often find in > practice that the problem you need to solve is already 90% done and > you just need some slight variation of your own. Perl generally > lets you embed existing programs, run them and use their output, > or you can even embed perl into an existing program to use its > strengths. With an object oriented approach and a mentality that > says there's only one way to do things, you'll end up throwing out > working code that has years of testing behind it and repeating most > of the old mistakes yourself. > Interesting points. What about this argument that Python scripts are more intuitive/readable? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
