Re: Preferred language?
Sergio Tortosa Benedito <[email protected]>
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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 > > > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users > _______________________________________________ gobolinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-users