psss...I want to move from Perl to Python

[paul.hermeneutic at gmail.com]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Fillmore <fillmore_remove at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I learned myself Perl as a scripting language over two decades ago. All
> through this time, I would revert to it from time to time whenever I needed
> some text manipulation and data analysis script.
>
> My problem? maybe I am stupid, but each time I have to go back and re-learn
> the syntax, the gotchas, the references and the derefercing, the different
> syntax between Perl 4 and Perl 5, that messy CPAN in which every author
> seems to have a different ideas of how things should be done....

I know what you mean about Perl. I have probably re-learned Perl 12 times.

If you will not need to maintain any existing code, go directly to
Python 3.x. Not every third-party support Python 3 yet, but it is
coming for most. If you can eschew 2.x, then do. Maintaining a source
base targeting both 2.x and 3.x can be done, but it is not always a
simple picture.

Learning a new language at 45 is a great idea. Do it again at 65.