Re: pyton & perl

[Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>]

On Thursday 29 March 2001 07:16, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> I know this is a stupid question, but I am very new to Linux and I
> know nothing about script programming. What is the difference between
> perl and pyton? Why the nedd to create these two diferent programming
> languages?

Oh boy, you may get more than you bargained for with a question like 
that.  :}

First, there are many different programming languages, created to serve 
different needs.  Just as there is C and C++ and Java and Fortran.  
Each has its strengths and weaknesses.
 
Personally I think of the difference between Perl and Python as 
somewhat analogous to the difference between C and C++.  Perl has many 
of the virtues, and many of the shortcomings, of C.  I think of Python 
as trying to  answer some of the shortcomings of Perl in much the same 
way that C++ tries to answer the shortcomings of C.  Perl hackers, put 
your hackles back down.  I'm not qualified to debate this subject, 
these are my impressions only.

Here are a couple of links that might help.

	http://www.perl.com/pub/language/versus/python.html
	http://www.python.org/doc/essays/comparisons.html
	http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue73/3882.html



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Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net>   http://www.sirinet.net/~budr
All things in moderation.  And not too much moderation either.