Hello, On Sat 14 Dec 2024 at 10:18pm +01, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 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. What gets and remains popular only sometimes does so because of its quality. We think Debian is very high quality, but at various times it has gained and lost popularity. I think Perl is a really good example of this. > 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? Yes, type checking is one advantage of Python over Perl. -- Sean Whitton
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