On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:16:36AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: | Hi, | I know this is a stupid question, but I am very new to Linux and I know | nothing about script programming. What is the difference between perl and | pyton? Why the nedd to create these two diferent programming languages?
Python is better <grin>. Go to www.python.org and www.perl.org (or .com?) and read a few samples of code. You'll see right away (even if you don't understand the code) that there is a big difference between the languages. The main thing they have in common is their origin with unix and the massive flamewar such a question may start. Perl uses lots of operators and allows one to write code that is _very_ compact, to the point of unreadability and unmaintainability (IMO). For example, look at some of the sigs on this list -- the ones that say "CueCat decoder by Larry Wall". Do you have any clue what it does or how it works? But it is short! I like python with it's clean and consistent (simple!) syntax combined with a lot of power, flexibility and expressiveness. It also scales quite well to large projects. (Better IMO than C, C++ or even Java) Python is very OO while perl follows the more procedural traditions of it's ancestors , sed awk sh and C. I think that python is much easier to learn. If you are interested, there is a tutor list, [email protected], that is very helpful. Hope this gives you some of the information you were looking for ;-), -D
