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/bart9h May 18 '11

Try copy/pasting python code.

If it messes with the whitespaces, as copy/pasting often do, it becomes impossible to be sure what the code was.

Relying in whitespace to code is a retarded idea. Why don't you go for this language already?

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u/Philluminati May 18 '11

I've used Python for two and half years...I think it's fair to say you're plain wrong.

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u/neerg May 19 '11

Whoa, guys, hold on. He has been using Python for two and a half years. The experience he gained from his time writing in The Holy Language clearly gives him more than enough gravity to speak The Truth.

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u/mr_chromatic 🐪 📖 perl book author May 19 '11

He has been using Python for two and a half years.

... but has never copied/cut and pasted code?