--- Juan José 'Peco' San Martín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this is not the right place to write this but... > > I'm afraid of Perl. I love it, I think it's a wonderful language and > what to say about CPAN... is uncomparable!. > > But today, if you want to develop for the the Nokia Smartphones > (Symbian), or for the Nintendo DS, or for large systems or for > GNOME/GTK, etc... the commom language seems to be Python. > > Perl6 is comming but may be it's too late. > > Really sorry for this FUD if somebody thinks that it's what is. :-/ > > Thoughts are welcome. > > Peco > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-perl-list mailing list > gtk-perl-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list >
Python, AFAIK, does not compare to Perl, and not in favor of Python. AFAIK, there are no closures in Python, and scoping is poor. A nice article by Larry Wall: "Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting..." -> http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/997 . If you're a fan of OOP, it has a pointer to "Moose" module: http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/Moose-0.36/lib/Moose.pm - I am not that crazy about OOP, but this module can be a good argument dealing with people who are. Also, AFAIK, Python does not have anonymous import, which Perl has, and this is my most favorite Perl feature. I think the module supercedes OOP capabilities of Python, and maybe even Ruby. By the way, Ruby is a much cleaner than Python language, so I really do not understand the hype around Python. Perl is a really powerful and efficient language, and good programmers can write really clean code in it. Regards, Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
