On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 11:14 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > On the other hand, it seems like more development is being done with > Python than Perl of late.
I think Perl lost momentum a lot when they switched attention to development of Perl 6. With that taking so many years to appear, the current Perl 5 version has stagnated... no new features nor major improvements. In contrast, Python has thrived in the same time, because it's seen continuous improvement over that time. It likewise stalled a bit with the slow adoption of Python 3, but they seem to be getting past that now. Plus, for a lot of people, Python is just a much nicer language to code in. It's a bit more verbose - it doesn't have as much of the concise little syntax that Perl does for some common tasks - but overall more readable. Perl is probably better for simple tasks (read and transform a file), but I'd use Python for anything more complex. Simon. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
