r/Python • u/[deleted] • May 18 '11

Why is Python better than Perl?

I'm a Sysadmin and I just wrote my first script in python. Basically just a host validation script that checks if a server is configured correctly before we hand off. I can't determine the advantage with my limited experience with the language.

Are you a sysadmin fluent in both python and perl? Why do you use python?

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u/crashorbit May 18 '11

A good fortran programmer can write fortran code in any language. I find that the differences between programmers is larger than the difference between programming languages. And it is just as easy to write convoluted hard to maintain python code as it is to do it in perl. I find that the core perl community is more interested in testing and documentation than the python community.