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I used to/still love perl, as it taught me a lot about regexp and hashmaps, but I have to admit, going back to a perl script written perhaps several years ago,
by xarope 8y ago
I used to/still love perl, as it taught me a lot about regexp and hashmaps, but I have to admit, going back to a perl script written perhaps several years ago, and I struggle to figure out why I wrote it, the way I did.
Contrast with python (v3), my current preferred prototyping/scripting choice, and it's still pretty clear about logic builds and data structures.
I'm now trying to decide if I should jump on the golang ship, but the library ecosystem compared to python seems rather spare at the moment.
- sacado2 8y agoYou might like go, indeed. At first, when I tried go (just after 1.0 went out), I wrote a small program with it and thought "meh". Yeah, the program was doing its job, but the language was pretty boring. A year later, I decided to improve that program, and that's when I really fell in love with the language. I could understand everything I had written, even though I hadn't read any go code for a year, and update it without any hassle. Moreover, my beginner program was rather idiomatic in the first place. Pretty cool. But, yeah, python's ecosystem is way bigger, so I tend to use both, depending on the situation.