Why do Perl programmers make more money than Python programmers

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Mon May 6 08:03:15 EDT 2013


On Mon, 06 May 2013 17:30:33 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> And of course, the Python Programmer's moral code is only 80
>>> characters wide.
>>
>> No! Was it not seventy characters wide? Was I fooled my entire life?
> 
> Well you see, it was 70 bytes back in the Python 2 days (I'll defer to
> Steven for data points earlier than that),


You had bytes? You were lucky. When I were a lad, we used to have to 
program by punching holes in stone tablets with our head.


You-tell-young-people-this-today-and-they-don't-believe-you-ly y'rs,



-- 
Steven



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