Posted in Programming on November 14, 2013| 4 Comments »
In no particular order…
| Speed or memory usage are sufficiently important | C++ |
| You’re a Windows shop or you hate Java | C# |
| You are writing a GUI and you’re allergic to Web Apps | C# (or Java) |
| You think in threads | Erlang or Golang |
| You like Lisp | Clojure or Racket |
| You’re a web consultant | PHP/Javascript |
| You prefer dynamic typing to static typing | Perl, Python or Ruby |
| Else | Java |
Posted in Perl on November 7, 2013| 8 Comments »
I’ve been feeling hard done by with the Python folks talking down Perl and all this time apparently it’s been us Perl guys who think Python is a crippled toy.
I’ve never seen anyone say that Perl is a superior programming language to Python, because of limited lambdas, deliberately restricted recursion or anything else.
Good humoured ribbing aside (depending on where you sit I guess), I believe that Perl and Python sit at approximately the same level on the language power continuum. I mean, they’re similar enough to be two different people’s take on the same underlying language (I kid, I kid!).
I do think that Perl is strictly more powerful than Python (with e.g. parser flexibility, symbol-table hackability). However, in most cases this additional power isn’t something you need. The main places I can think of where it has been used legitimately is where stuff that is built-in to Python has been added by Perl at the library level.
Posted in Perl, tagged perlnotes on November 4, 2013| 2 Comments »
Capturing a couple of old links so I don’t lose them:
An aside… in my industry, we’re probably not going to be seeing any of this until 2020 or so. We’re still stuck on 5.10 (RHEL6).
A Curious Programmer 