I can't even read python, I wish I knew why.

The conclusion I came to when I dabbled in Python was that it was important to think like Guido. Which, it seems, I don't. Fortunately, it is not necessary to think like Larry to understand Perl -- which is a good thing, because I don't think many of us could manage.

If I tried Python again now, I might do better. At the time, my primary experience with OO was through Inform (which sets a very high standard for how useful the paradigm should be in the language). OO is pervasive in Python, and I was not accustomed at the time to thinking that way about every problem, or most problems. Now, having done OO in Perl5 (which does *not* meet Inform's standard of how good the OO in a language should be), I've learned to deal with OO stuff in a language other than Inform, and so if I tried Python again, I might do better.

But, now I am so deeply comfortable in Perl, that Python would have to offer something really compelling to lure me away, and with Perl6 on the horizon, I doubt that's possible. In other words, I could probably learn Python now, but I no longer want to.

In reply to Re: Roads to Perl by jonadab
in thread Roads to Perl by gunzip

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