On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 16:57, Micah J. Cowan wrote: <major snippage> > Actually, most of the time I personally prefer C or C++. But if I want > a higher-level language that allows me to finish faster in exchange > for less efficient programs, less direct control over what's > happening, and the requirement that an implementation be present on > the end-user's machine, then assuming I knew Python quite as well as I > know Perl, I would usually use Perl for doing stuff that had any kind > of major text processing, and Python especially for GUI-oriented > things.
I don't think Perl is all *that* much better than Python for text-processing. Python's re module is usually on a par with Perl's. And the cleaner code of Python is a major bonus. > Depends on the text processing, though: I find that > character-by-character access of a text string is somewhat less > painful in Python compared to Perl. It always seemed kind of strange > to me that there wasn't a straightforward C-array-style access to > strings, or something similar, in Perl. > > Pet peeve about Python is probably the braindead scoping > rules. Lexical scopes are not nested: when you enter a block within a > block, the outer block is completely and utterly obscured. Yeah, but that was fixed in Python 2.1, released 2 years ago. Python now uses regular lexical scoping. dave
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