<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">The TIMTOWTDI aspect of Perl is why I dislike it - a program with N developers working on it will have N+1 ways to do everything, requiring me to be familiar with all parts of Perl to work in the code<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 7:05 AM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 12/29/2014 09:17 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> Where's the trial by fire aspect of perl? Other than whitespace failures, Python<br>
> is just too damn clear!<br>
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<br>
</span>In 11th grade, I was taught which column got the C (6) so the line could be<br>
continued. Since that language, I've always rejected languages which are<br>
completely dependent on whitespace. I'm not 16 anymore. BTW - it was<br>
Fortran66. Python feels like that to me.<br>
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<br>
However, Python is probably the best learning language out there today and if I<br>
were recommending any language for someone to use/learn it is python. I<br>
convinced my sister, a math professor, to teach her non-technical 1st<br>
programming language students Python over all other languages.<br>
<a href="http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/10/19/how-to-learn-to-program" target="_blank">http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/10/19/how-to-learn-to-program</a><br>
The comments are helpful too.<br>
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<br>
OTOH, perl is NOT write once (unless the programmer is a complete noob) and it<br>
is an unbelievable language for performance and flexibility. All languages<br>
(spoken or computer or written) require the human to learn the syntax in<br>
context, python does, just like perl. Once you get the hang of Perl it is<br>
fantastic with subtle differences in the way to accomplish something best. There<br>
isn't just 1 way to accomplish something in Perl, just like there are multiple<br>
ways to say something in English.<br>
<br>
Shakespeare would program in Perl. P-Diddy in Python. Just sayin'.<br>
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