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Perl is also a nasty language to work with. Incredibly ugly. Even if perl was the standard for data science, I would be looking to escape it at every opportun
by ldiracdelta 5y ago
Perl is also a nasty language to work with. Incredibly ugly. Even if perl was the standard for data science, I would be looking to escape it at every opportunity. In fact, that's what I did when I worked in a sector that had tooling and network effects for perl. I tried to escape using perl every chance I could.
- PaulHoule 5y agoThere's R which is weird in a way like Perl is weird. I think R is worse but it is bundled with a very good stats library. R users aren't so interested in "programming in the large" or even the small so it is OK. Other than the meaningful indentation Python strikes me as a generic and normal programming language. I'm quite amused at how Python and Java got pattern matching at about the same time with a broadly similar approach to "fit this new feature in this language so that it feels like it belongs and plays well with decades of existing practice".