The more Python I write, the more convinced I become that Perl has a healthy future. Both languages are a joy to write, but they target different mindsets. In Python, everything is a keyword. Whatever you want to get done, you do it by calling methods. When you need to get something done, it's clear what you need to do. And that's great. Perl is much more visual, grammatical, and flexible. You either love that because of the power it gives you to write and read code quickly (please don't anyone trot out tired 1990s comments about Perl being a write-only language, it only demonstrates a lack of knowledge of modern Perl), or you hate it because there's definitely a learning curve to climb and the visual and contextual content of the code isn't, well, it isn't spelled out for you. Horses for courses, it depends how your brain is wired. Predictions of Perl's death seem to be the received wisdom of the day. Perl will never be the dominant language it once was, but that doesn't mean Perl is dying. There are many more excellent languages around than there were in Perl's heyday. Perl's decline is relative, not absolute.
The more Python I write, the more convinced I become that Perl has a healthy future. Both languages are a joy to write, but they target different mindsets. In Python, everything is a keyword. Whatever you want to get done, you do it by calling methods. When you need to get something done, it's clear what you need to do. And that's great. Perl is much more visual, grammatical, and flexible. You either love that because of the power it gives you to write and read code quickly (please don't anyone trot out tired 1990s comments about Perl being a write-only language, it only demonstrates a lack of knowledge of modern Perl), or you hate it because there's definitely a learning curve to climb and the visual and contextual content of the code isn't, well, it isn't spelled out for you. Horses for courses, it depends how your brain is wired. Predictions of Perl's death seem to be the received wisdom of the day. Perl will never be the dominant language it once was, but that doesn't mean Perl is dying. There are many more excellent languages around than there were in Perl's heyday. Perl's decline is relative, not absolute.
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