On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Is it better to learn Perl or Python since i can manage only writing > simple bash shell scripts. > > Please suggest/guide. > > Thanks and Regards > > Kaushal
You are coming to a perl list and asking whether you should learn Perl or Python but provide no other unformation. There are a number of things wrong with this question. 1) You seem to be indicating that you could learn only one or the other but not both 2) You leave out other useful languages 3) You provide no indication of the types of things you want to do - so we can not help you choose a language that is best suited for your project. No No language is "better" than any other. They each have strong points and weak points. These points change depending on what you plan on doing. The real question to ask is: Right now, for this project, given my time constraints and resource restrictions what is best for me? 4) If you are already coding shell scripts it is likely that you will find Perl easier to learn but if you learn python it will help you to write good clean code more easily and learning is not that difficult. Another possibility is to learn C++. You already know a scripting language - so it might be worthwhile to learn a lower level language. It all comes down to: what do you want to do with the new language. Perhaps if you give us some more details we might be able to better help you. -- Eitan Adler -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
