Python vs Perl

Michael Ströder michael at stroeder.com
Mon Jun 19 14:34:00 EDT 2000


Andy Leighton wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 06:41:39 GMT, Thomas Weholt <thomas at cintra.no> wrote:
>
> >* Perl is harder to read than Python. This makes debugging and re-use
> >of other peoples code harder.
> 
> Of course if you only know Perl, I would think Perl would be the easiest
> to read.  Although it would be fair to say that Python is more transparent
> than Perl.

I learned Python for CGI-BIN programming because it was more
readable to me. Although every document / book about web programming
had Perl examples. I knew neither Python nor Perl before.

Ciao, Michael.



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