Perl Vs Python

[Michele Simionato]

"John Smith" <someone at microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<tn87a.275521$vm2.210711 at rwcrnsc54>...
> Steve:
> 
> I am not trying to get anyone to fight anyone, quite he contrary.. At 56 I
> have spent a great deal of time/energy helping people to get along, or at
> least understand each others. I am probably more proud of this than my
> technical achievement (and I have done some neat stuff...).
> 
> I am just a software enginner, with need for something like Perl, or Python
> (or may be both), trying to figure out what would be the best investment of
> my time.
> 
> So far I have done a lot of text files processing in just plain C, (and the
> old TECO too, some sed).
> 
> I wish people were not so cynical, and see bad thing in a simple question,
> with no (none whatsoever) bad intention.
> 
> Did you spend ( and I) your time answering the question, I may have learned
> something.
> 
> And by the way, if one or both of the languages has some superiority, so be
> it, then maybe the other will either complement or bu enhanced. This is
> supposed to be the spirit of the FSF, that I greatly endorse. The KED and
> GNOME story may tell you something.
> 
> If there is bigotry somewhere, let´s just reconize it for what it is and
> move on.(This may be positive too).
> 
> And there is also nothing wrong at preffering a language, just for personal
> taste... And being able to say why, is quite a good thing. (Refer to Donald
> Knuth, or Bertrand Meyer, and others...)
> 
> After lots of C, I still prefer Pascal (excepted for low level code), that I
> find cleaner, and more object oriented (file of records!) but this is
> another story...
> 
> Thanks buddy.
> 
> John Smith (not my real name).
> 

If you prefer Pascal to C, chances are that you will prefer Python to
Perl. For what concerns Steve Holden's answer, you should understand
that "Python vs. Perl" is a a typical trolling question that has been
answered hundreds of times. Better  doing some previous research than
asking that ;)


                                                        Michele