Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon May 6 22:11:22 EDT 2002


In article <mailman.1020695950.14919.python-list at python.org>,
Mark McEahern <marklists at mceahern.com> wrote:
>[Peter Hansen]
>>
>> More out of curiosity than an intention of starting a flame war, but
>> would someone post a snippet of twenty or so lines of Perl which they
>> believe is "readable"?
>
>Does anyone know of research into what the criteria for readability
>might be?

<grin>  Try finding the original ABC papers.
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