Hi, dhoss,

You could have just sent me an email and asked. :) As others have already mentioned, the "I" in "I can get stuff done..." is important. I have a lot more experience writing C++ than I do with Perl.

I also find C++ much simpler than Perl. This may sound preposterous. C++ is an incredibly complicated language. I would guess that fewer than 1% of programmers actually know the complete syntax of C++! I can only think of one language that is more complicated -- Perl.

Perl's motto ("There is more than one way to do it.") was an interesting design choice. Learning Perl for simple tasks is great fun. Learning all of Perl, completely, is almost impossible for mortals. Its brevity is astounding. (Just look at some of the Perl solution lengths on http://spoj.pl) Its complexity is even more astounding.

For the record, nowadays, I do most of my web programming in Python either on the Google App Engine or on plain old Apache.

igor

In reply to Re: C++ vs. Perl mention on shygypsy.com by Anonymous Monk
in thread C++ vs. Perl mention on shygypsy.com by stonecolddevin

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