Re: pyton & perl

[Alexis Roda <arv@si.urv.es>]

D-Man wrote:
>
> Perl uses lots of operators and allows one to write code that is
> _very_ compact, to the point of unreadability and unmaintainability
> (IMO).

You can write obfuscated programs with any language, even with python.
The programmer should use the language (any language, not just perl or
python) resources judiciously to improve readability and
maintainability.

> Python is very OO while perl follows the more procedural traditions of
> it's ancestors , sed awk sh and C.

Perl allows one to write both procedural and OO programs. Perl OO model
is very simple, flexible and powerful.



Regards
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