PYTHON WORKING WITH PERL ??

[J Kenneth King]

Pat <Pat at junk.net> writes:

> Sean DiZazzo wrote:
>> On Sep 29, 12:44 pm, "Blubaugh, David A." <dbluba... at belcan.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Sir,
>>>
>>> You are absolutely correct.  I was praying to G_d I did not have to
>>> slaughter my project's source code in this manner.  However, like life
>>> itself, I was given legacy source code (i.e. someone else errors to fix)
>>> in Perl.  However, I have just found out that there is a way to import
>>> the Perl interpreter within Python!!!  I now believe I can utilize
>>> python as the main platform to develop the project upon !!  
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain [mailto:da... at druid.net]
>>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:32 PM
>>> To: Blubaugh, David A.
>>>
>>> Cc: python-l... at python.org
>>> Subject: Re: PYTHON WORKING WITH PERL ??
>>>
>>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:16:14 -0400
>>> "Blubaugh, David A." <dbluba... at belcan.com> wrote:
>>>> I was wondering if it was possible to have a situation where a
>>>> programming project would utilized BOTH python and perl?  Such as
>>>> utilizing python for internet programming and then utilize perl for
>>>> text processing and systems programming?  Is this even feasible???
>>> I don't see why not but I also question if it is a good idea.  Once you
>>> have all your objects and low level methods written in Python it just
>>> makes sense to re-use them rather than trying to duplicate the
>>> functionality in another language.
>>>
>>> Of course, sometimes we don't have control over our entire environment
>>> so yes, you can mix them if you have to.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Rewrite everything in python.  Save yourself now...while you still
>> can.
>>
>> ~Sean
>
> Trust me. Sean is absolutely correct. I'm currently in the process of
> converting a large Perl project to Python (and learning Python at the
> same time) and the improvement in code is incredible.  After you learn
> Python, you'll come to despise Perl.

Depends on the person -- I still love Perl, but program in Python
every day at work.

Python is great, but don't be mistaken: it's not the one language to
rule them all. No language is (except maybe Lisp).

But yay for converting a project to python. :)