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> A library and a language are apples and oranges. Python's library ecosystem is more comprehensive than Perl's language. Because most any language minus all of
by sigzero 12y ago
> A library and a language are apples and oranges. Python's library ecosystem is more comprehensive than Perl's language. Because most any language minus all of its libraries is less "comprehensive" than another language's libraries, simply because most mature library ecosystems are much more massive than the language itself.
That doesn't even make sense.
- DonHopkins 12y agoWhat he said, "Also, Perl's library system, CPAN, is far more comprehensive than many languages", doesn't make sense, because he's comparing a "library" to "languages": apples and oranges.
- wantarray 12y agoCome on now, it's clear that he meant to compare CPAN to the corresponding module repositories of those other languages.
- DonHopkins 12y agoI was only taking what he literally wrote at face value. I'd expect a Perl programer to be more careful with punctuation that that. ;)