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Perl experts prefer it over Python, because: 1) forward symbol references 2) moderate type checking (at both compile and run times) 3) Mojolicious.
by redis_mlc 6y ago
Perl experts prefer it over Python, because:
1) forward symbol references
2) moderate type checking (at both compile and run times)
3) Mojolicious.
- LanceH 6y agoPeople overestimate the contribution of all the fancy data science libraries and schemes compared to the effort of getting clean data into place where it can be picked apart. Whether it is worth learning both Perl and Python for the same project is questionable, but as for assembling and cleaning up data, I haven't come across anything as good.
- wheresmycraisin 6y ago1) What is forward symbol referencing? 2) ... what type checking? You mean scalars vs arrays? 3) Mojolicious is certainly a full-fledged web framework, but there are so many just-as-good frameworks out there for other similar languages (Python/Ruby/PHP).