Python > PERL

That is all.

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Woah. Get off my internet.

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In Tribute to Adam Sliger. Rest in Peace

10/7/85 - 12/9/03

Eeek, don't let GBK see this!

/me runs off to hide . . .

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

Oh great...

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I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

[url="mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net"]mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net[/url]Bruintone@netscape.net</A>
Yahoo! Name : jedibruintone77

/me hides behind a three foot thick steel door

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RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Um... yeah, sorry for the flamebait. I got a little excited...

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*slaps Mystic repeatedly with a trout*

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

I have a sword-fish here...

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I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

[url="mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net"]mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net[/url]Bruintone@netscape.net</A>
Yahoo! Name : jedibruintone77

Fixed.

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

Man the battle stations! We're going to war...
Red alert!
Prepare for battle!
Shields up! (shoot; don't have that technology yet! )

I tried to hide with Freelancer and happydud, but there wasn't enough room.

[edit]Crap, too late!

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The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited February 19, 2004).]

Are you sure that's the correct order? If I remember, it goes more like this:

Perl>Pigeon urine>Prarie Dog discharge>Dog crap>Seeing Dog Crap>Hearing Dog Crap>Smelling Dog Crap>Stepping in Dog Crap>Falling face-first in Dog Crap>Python...

...I may be slightly wrong... But I know that perl is rather effective...

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Nes digs around in the trash can.
Nes finds a hamburger!
Nes puts the hamburger in his backpack.

Let me say this straight off the bat: I don't have any experience in either language; this is simple information I have gathered from research. I intend to learn either Python or PERL, and have just started learning the former.

Python:

Pros:

• Simple
• Elegant
• Clean
• Minimalistic
• Productive
• Large Library
• Integration with other languages
• Fun!
• Excellent learning language
• OOP
• Cross-platform
• Easy GUI development
• Short development cycles
• Readable
• Small debug cycle

Cons

• Slow. As. Hell.
• Not as old or big as PERL

Uses:

• Rapid Development
• Education
• GUI development
• Hold together other languages like C, C++, and Java. Because Python has such poor performance, a developer would write and compile the resource intensive modules in C, store data in XML, and use python to implement those modules. Because Python is interpreted, changes can be made easily any time with out re-compiling.
• Cross platform projects
• Prototypes
• Internet Scripting
• Database manipulation
• Anything that doesn't require performance

Let me say that this thread is not an attack on PERL in any way... I was just poking fun. I'm trying not defending Python religiously like some sort of mindless zealot, so please correct me if I'm mistaken in any way. And please tell me, specifically, why PERL is so 1337. The impression I have of it now is that it is huge, powerful, a little messy, and features 500 ways to do one thing.

*Runs and hides in bomb shelter

Edit: removed a duplicate.
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[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited February 19, 2004).]

[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited February 19, 2004).]

[This message has been edited by Mystic0 (edited February 19, 2004).]

If more people used Python, we'd have shields everywhere.

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Python >>>>> Perl
sorry GBK, but anata ga baka de ;P

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Perl is 1337 because I said it is.




Thats one of its benifits. Your not limited to a single way of doing something. Granted, sometimes it can be a bit hard to see what someone is trying to do when your looking at their code, but thats to be expected from *any* language...

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Except Python!

Your new site is written in PERL, right? It's looking pretty good.

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Yeah, and thanks.

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Hey, wait a minute... that format looks familier.

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PHP > Perl & Python

Well. . . for websites at least.

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Disagree. I hate the formatting of python - come on, white space designates code blocks? Gimme a break.

Regarding PHP vs. Perl: I have coded both extensively, and while PHP makes web development easier, perl makes it correct. Perl has real references, PHPs are a joke. Perl's syntax is crappy at times, it's harder to learn, harder still to decipher most of the code that's out there, but that's not a fault of the language.

I would still choose PHP, but I like perl better because of the references, CPAN, standardized db library, and the speed (whoever told you PHP was faster than mod_perl was simply foolish). I have the feeling that when I get better at it, I'll like it even more. I have to admit that the whole OOP thing is crap in perl (just the syntax is soooo bad).