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Yeah, there are times when it's easy to be frustrated at the roundabout way you have to do certain things in Python compared to Perl; I also found the latter to
by jlees 16y ago
Yeah, there are times when it's easy to be frustrated at the roundabout way you have to do certain things in Python compared to Perl; I also found the latter to be true on other occasions so it's swings and roundabouts.
My side point was really just that if you know Perl, you don't have to do much to learn Python. Another commenter in this thread says Ruby's easy to a Perl-head, but I didn't find that to be the case personally.
- leif 16y agoWell in general, if you're a polyglot programmer (which all Perl programmers should be because honestly, nobody in their right mind is going to let you program only in Perl all day), you don't have to do much to learn either one. These three though, have more in common. They all have roughly C-like syntax, passable functions, simple I/O, and good vector and dictionary support by default. To me, they're all the same language in different suits (well, pant-suits in ruby's case ;-).