Re: Preferred language?

Sergio Tortosa Benedito <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.gobo.general
Message-ID <CAPiRi8PT7KLdMgN2m4ydv6H95iWOpgmxRtjzxcePfN20JPSMOw@mail.gmail.com>
As much as I see you seem to have Perl knowledge, so from your point of
view (be as subjective as you want :) ), which one is more "readable"?
 (whatever you understand that means), I'm initially asking in a Perl vs
Python, but feel free to add any language you consider.

--Sergio

2015-03-29 21:17 GMT+02:00 Joel Roth <[email protected]>:

> I had written:
>
> > > The best references (no pun intended) for perl nowadays are
> > > Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz, Modern Perl by chromatic,
> > > Beginning Perl by Curtis Poe. The latter two are free to
> > > download.
>
> Sergio Tortosa Benedito wrote:
> > Hey thanks I'll try to read them (I'm taking modern perl as it seems to
> be
> > more direct, though I guessed that only eith the title so I may be off
> > track).
>
> They're great books written by great programmers.
>
> Oh, and one other reference for perl is the Perl Monks
> website, http://perlmonks.org . Useful to search, and a
> friendly community. If you can post sample code and a clear
> question, you will almost certainly receive help!
>
> Back to the question of languages, I believe Python
> is somewhat easier than Perl for calling into C libraries.
> For day-to-day scripting, I think you can use pretty much
> any language you like, whatever fits your mind better.
>
> (They say for a flexible mind, you should learn several
> languages.)
>
> cheers,
>
> Joel
>
>
> --
> Joel Roth
>
>
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