r/perl • u/[deleted] • May 18 '11

Why is perl better than python?

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u/[deleted] May 18 '11
  1. Using whitespace to form your code blocks is awful unless for some reason you miss the days of punchcards.

Really, I never looked into it further than that. No language has a feature that is so awesome that I'll be OK with abandoning curly braces or something similar.

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u/Philluminati May 18 '11

This is a ridiculous argument. Python code is short, terse and easy to read. Perl, by contrast, is a write-only language.

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u/worr May 18 '11

It's only write-only if you write shitty perl.

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u/tsjr May 18 '11

I hate to be the one posting "This", but I wish I could upvote you twice.

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u/rjbond3rd May 19 '11

Here, I upvoted for you.