Slightly off topic...

Slightly off topic...

Posted Jan 4, 2006 13:30 UTC (Wed) by copsewood (subscriber, #199)
In reply to: Slightly off topic... by kornak
Parent article: Presentations with Pylize (Linux.com)

There's still plenty of good stuff around in Perl and you have to use
Perl to maintain/improve/learn it. In my case I need to get my head further into SpamAssassin. You'd probably learn Python in a couple of days though. Having used Perl before I learned Python, I now prefer the latter and can get a lot more work done in Python more quickly if I know a new program is going to grow to more than 100 lines of code. I still use Perl occasionally for new programs which are not going to need more than 20 lines of code or maintaining, e.g. where the regex or file globbing syntax makes the job a little bit easier, and bash/sed/awk/grep would be too messy. Also understanding someone elses Python is a lot quicker for me than understanding someone else's Perl - GNU Mailman being easier for me to read and understand, for example, than SpamAssassin.

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