On 11/7/05, Bogart Salzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I would be curious to hear from someone who actually knows Python/ > Ruby and Perl. Which one would he/she rather use to accomplish > typical tasks of varying scopes? Forget benchmarks and keystrokes for > a moment. Which one would he/she rather use? [...]
Personally I would not want to use Python. Their attitude towards closures makes inconvenient a family of techniques that I use. YMMV as to whether that matters to you. Between Perl and Ruby, I believe that raw programming is more productive in Ruby but it is missing CPAN. So if I wanted to build something complex which there isn't much prior art for, then I'd be inclined to recommend Ruby. But for smaller jobs, Perl wins because you don't have to write significant pieces. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
