Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

[Hansmeet Singh]

i think we should end our butchering of perl on a light note (you may have
already read this):
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.


On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Perl is like 10 languages smushed together.  To write it, you need only
> > learn one of the 10.   To read someone else's, you don't know what subset
> of
> > those 10 they've used until you get deep into the code.
>
> +1 QOTW.
>
> Perl: The Swiss Army Knife of programming languages, including the bit
> where you can never find the right blade to open up.
>
> Chris Angelico
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