python, perl, lisp, tcl / got a decision to make, can you give me a view point please ? and a joke for python users :)

[Wayne Izatt]

I'll bite...

Without a doubt, Python is the better of the three. If only I'd
known about it before I leaned the other two.

cheers

"Yvon Boulianne" <mysticsguy at yahoo.ca> wrote in message
news:3aba3076.14395287 at news.vif.com...
> Hello,  i'm a bit confused with so many language ;-)
> theres the story, i like to learn a programming language for 2 reasons
> 1- i want to be able to make some script on my web site (i heard about
> zope, don't know what it have to do with python)
>
> 2- i want to learn to keep my mind trained, i'm a mystic and i want to
> make this mental grow in ability ;-)
>
> so i read about these language, i know a bit of perl and tcl, (i find
> perl too much cryptics, difficult to understand other people scripts)
> and for tcl i find it too much simple at my taste,  i also find tcl
> unclear to read, it's like reading a bunch of chinese sometimes ;-)
>
> so do you think that python can be a good choice or maybe another one
> ? i am presently downloading python to try some example, maybe it will
> fix my mind but i doubt it,  i haven't enough experiences to compare
> subject as complicated as computer languages.
>
> oh, theres a joke i found on a website, maybe it will make some of you
> laugh ;-)
>
> EXTERIOR: DAGOBAH -- DAY      With Yoda strapped to his back, Luke
> climbs up one of the   many thick vines that grow in the swamp until
> he reaches the   Dagobah statistics lab. Panting heavily, he continues
> his   exercises -- grepping, installing new packages, logging in as
> root, and writing replacements for two-year-old shell scripts   in
> Python.
>
> YODA: Code!  Yes.  A programmer's strength flows from code
> maintainability. But beware of Perl.  Terse syntax... more than one
> way to do it... default variables.  The dark side of code
> maintainability are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you when
> code you write.  If once you start down the dark path, forever will it
> dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
>
> LUKE: Is Perl better than Python?
>
> YODA: No... no... no.  Quicker, easier, more seductive.
>
> LUKE: But how will I know why Python is better than Perl?
>
> YODA: You will know.  When your code you try to read six months from
> now.
>
>
> Thanks verry much for the time you took to read me.
> Yvon.
> Yvon Boulianne ; Saphi
> mysticsguy at yahoo.ca
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