(jeffa) Re: Perl vs Python

"What features do you think Perl has over Python?"

"Another feature for Python over Perl is that Python is more OO than Perl"

That is a vicious lie. Now, if you want to talk better OO, check out Ruby. (but i still think Perl's OO is gold)

tilly : gone, but not forgotten

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Re: (jeffa) Re: Perl vs Python by erikharrison (Deacon) on Mar 24, 2002 at 00:52 UTC
Here, here. A solemn nod for tilly. Python is called more object oriented than Perl. This is somewhat true. Perl 6 will change that, but OO is deep inside of Python's design philosophy. Perl has inconsistent or random (seeming) features to help get your job done. We got nested scopes, they got metaclasses. Truth is that 98% of the time, we're talking about syntacitic sugar and philosophy when we discuss the two languages. When we'retalking features, Python generally has less features to per problem space, but sometimes Python's consistency makes it easier to guess HOW you'll do something if it's out of your field. But that's usually cause it'sthe ONLY way to do it. (Metaclasses are still cool though :-) Cheers, Erik	[reply]

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Re: (jeffa) Re: Perl vs Python
by erikharrison (Deacon) on Mar 24, 2002 at 00:52 UTC

Here, here. A solemn nod for tilly.

Python is called more object oriented than Perl. This is somewhat true. Perl 6 will change that, but OO is deep inside of Python's design philosophy. Perl has inconsistent or random (seeming) features to help get your job done. We got nested scopes, they got metaclasses. Truth is that 98% of the time, we're talking about syntacitic sugar and philosophy when we discuss the two languages. When we'retalking features, Python generally has less features to per problem space, but sometimes Python's consistency makes it easier to guess HOW you'll do something if it's out of your field. But that's usually cause it'sthe ONLY way to do it. (Metaclasses are still cool though :-)

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