Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
> Umm Perl believes the author should have control over what he writes
> rather than the Language setting the restrictions.
So perl does not have a validating reference "compiler"? And it guesses my
intent how?
I am not qualified to judge which is better, but as a SysAdmin I wade
through other people's code, and I often have to get a "good" guy to explain
to me what a perl fragment is doing. With python, I can read the code and
figure out what is going where, even though I have no clue why. And I have
been "reading" perl for much longer than python.
I got a shock in 1995 when I realised that perl had 2 ways to write an "if
.. then .. endif" clause. And the same module had both styles used, in a
random fashion. I have not recovered ;-)
--
Sanjeev, whose last language was FORTRAN, although he learnt COBOL too
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