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Comment Re:Perl's a mess (Score 2) 379

For myself, I learned Perl first, but was still interested in languages, and so continued with Python, PHP, Java, and so on. For a scripting language, I settled with Python, and feel that it is far superior to Perl in just about every way imaginable (and yeah, I'm a fan of the indentation, too, though I can see that if that's not similar to how you formatted your code in the first place, you'd not be likely to appreciate it. Me, I come from a C background where indentation far more formal than the K&R style was required.)

I love Python and use it daily, but there's one area where it lacks: speed. Perl is, by far, one of the fastest languages i've used and a very good choice if you're doing heavy batch processing.

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