newbie question
Jorge Godoy
godoy at ieee.org
Tue Nov 16 17:05:19 EST 2004
James Stroud <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> writes:
> I have done shell programming in both python and perl for some time. I love
> both languages for different reasons. At the risk of sounding like language
> evangelicalism, though, I will advise you to use python exclusively.
> Sometimes without thinking I still reach for perl to do 'shell' scripting (by
> thinking in perl and beginning with the infamous "#! /usr/bin/perl -w"). In
> these cases I invariably finish and say to myself "I should have done this in
> python."
That makes two of us. :-)
But I'm going more to Python now. I used to do a lot of things faster
in Perl when I was beginning with Python, now I am a lot faster in
Python. :-) The main advantage is that Python comes with batteries
included ;-)
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Godoy. <godoy at ieee.org>
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