age of new pythonistas [was: The Editor Poll results are in!]
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pmullh at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 2 15:32:34 EST 2002
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca wrote in message
> Even if I prefer Python to Perl, I would never even think that Perl is not
> well designed. When I was using Perl, as a user (not as a reader of books
> about it :-), I found that Perl allowed me to quickly write my code, it
> was full of good ideas, and I felt the language quite fulfilled its promises.
>
Perl seemed to me to be well designed but not 'easily accessible'.
There's an overhead to Perl. I found that I always was aware of the
fact that I was 'programming in Perl'. In Python, I usually am only
vaguely aware that I'm 'programming' as opposed to just thinking.
Just my $0.02,
Patrick
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