On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 06:39 -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:
> Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 08:53:23PM -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:
[snip]
> I might have to consider both Perl and Python. I think Perl has
> the reputation, being the "swiss army chainsaw" an all. Are these
> both of the same level of programming power?!
Yes. Remember, though, that they come from 2 different places,
and have their strengths.
If you'll be doing lots of text processing and searching, Perl is
for you, since it's highly optimized for that.
Python is more of a GP language, well suited to small scripts and
large projects.
http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html
DESCRIPTION
Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbi-
trary text files, extracting information from those text
files, and printing reports based on that information. It's
also a good language for many system management tasks. The
language is intended to be practical (easy to use, effi-
cient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant,
minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway)
some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people
familiar with those languages should have little difficulty
with it. (Language historians will also note some vestiges
of csh, Pascal, and even BASIC|PLUS.) Expression syntax
corresponds quite closely to C expression syntax. If you
have a problem that would ordinarily use sed or awk or sh,
but it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little fas-
ter, and you don't want to write the silly thing in C, then
perl may be for you. There are also translators to turn
your sed and awk scripts into perl scripts. OK, enough
hype.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_programming_language
"Python is an interpreted, interactive programming language created
by Guido van Rossum in 1990, originally as a scripting language for
Amoeba OS capable of making system calls. Python is often compared
to Tcl, Perl, Scheme, Java, and Ruby."
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