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It seems like people barely have to glance at Python to know it. Perl is harder, and for many people (or at least me) it didn't stick without constant practice
by dkarl 6y ago
It seems like people barely have to glance at Python to know it. Perl is harder, and for many people (or at least me) it didn't stick without constant practice. I put in the effort to learn Perl several times, but any time I left it alone for a month or two, my brain purged it. I finally embraced Python after realizing that I could still remember how to code in it after casually messing around with it a few months prior.
- UncleOxidant 6y agoI'll add that perl code is much harder to read and understand even if you're the author of said code. I wrote a lot of Perl code in the 90s and I'd often come back to a piece of code I'd written a few months before and be puzzled.