begin quoting David Brown as of Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:05:02PM -0800: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:40:00PM -0800, SJS wrote: > > >>For a time, but Python continues to rise while Perl continues to sink: > >>http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm > > > >Well, that's because it's the new shiny. > > I use Python over Perl because I'm more productive, and my code is more > maintainable. As an added bonus, I don't have code that looks like comic > characters swearing.
Heh. You should try APL sometime, and tell us how it works out. I like perl for text-processing tasks. It *can* be a general-purpose programming language, but that's not what it is best at. Anything over a couple of pages of perl, and I'm seriously itching to grab a different tool. Lots of people are very productive with very large perl programs, even if I do think they're silly. My opinions on python are well-known after the recent debacle, so there's no need to rehash *that* ground. (...and there was much rejoicing...) > Java is newer than Python. In fact, so is PHP, C#, Ruby, and D. In fact, > Perl is not a lot older than Python. I'd hardly call a 16 year old > language new and shiny. Didn't say it was "new and shiny". Said it was "the new shiny". -- "Shiny, Captian!" little Kaylie said, "If I don't fix this, we're all dead." Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
