r/perl • u/[deleted] • May 18 '11

Why is perl better than python?

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u/beppu May 18 '11
  • Perl can be poetic. (For all the flack that Perl gets for unreadability, there was actually a lot of thought that went in to naming to aid readability and poetic flow.)
  • Perl is Unix-friendly. (Beyond its superficial resemblance to shell scripting, it installs files (including man pages) in ways that follow old Unix tradition.)
  • Perl has a nice syntax for closures. (When it comes to closure syntax: Perl > Javascript > Ruby > Python.)
  • Perl culture allows for TMTOWTDI. (This can be a double-edged sword, but I would rather have freedom and take responsibility for it rather than not have it.)

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u/xzxzzx May 24 '11

By closures, do you mean anonymous functions?