On 13.12.24 08:58, Sean Whitton wrote:
If you don't dig too deep, Perl and Python are really very similar in what it is easier and more difficult to use them for.
That may well be, but that just means that there must be a different reason why Perl has fallen by the wayside, more or less, while Python has anything but.
Case in point I have written a veritable ton of Perl code, 30 to 15-or-so years ago, building the first version of our company's CMDB tool.
Nowadays? Python. Sorry. Version 3 of that CMDB system is Python from top to bottom.
I'm not getting into the reasons here, that'd make for a way-too-long text, but suffice to say that Python data structures are far more *discoverable* than Perl, which translates to much easier bug fixing. The same thing applies to typing. Did you try to statically-type-check a Perl program lately?
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