Python or PHP?

[John Bokma]

Ville Vainio wrote:

>>>>>> "John" == John Bokma <postmaster at castleamber.com> writes:
> 
>     >> Nah, they aren't slow. They just have to worry about more
>     >> things than the Python developers.
> 
>     John> Do you have references to this? I would love to see if
>     John> indeed 100 Python programmers do implement, say 5 CS tasks
>     John> faster compared to 100 Perl programmers, on average.
> 
> I am quite sure

I am sorry, "quite sure" doesn't count :-D

> no error handling needed (exceptions take care of it automatically).

Who told you Perl can't do exceptions?

> I would also venture to guess that random (adult) Python programmers
> would be of higher skill level as far as programming in general goes
> (know more languages, have a "good taste"...).

I already gave two very good reasons why this is the case.

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