I'm not sure why every Python lover has to be Perl troll. No seriously. The author is clearly a Python fan boy, and he can very well write a good technical article to illustrate Python's goodness. I'm sure we all can appreciate that. But you don't have to troll Perl endlessly to do that. Besides all that, I've been hearing this Perl is dead thing since what, 10 years? If that was really the case Perl should not only have died, but should have even been forgotten from our very memories.
Something tells me most Python lovers take Perl as a very serious competitor. Else they wouldn't be writing articles like these.
Python's big rise came after hipster crowds got web frameworks written in Python. If you use hibernate or spring in Java, you can only come to love Python's web frameworks. But that time is long gone now. The crowd went to newer languages like Scala and Go. For all practical popularity purposes. Perl and Python are the very same these days.
If you are really worried about popularity. Lets talk of Python's falling popularity compared to languages like Go and Scala.
>>By the late 2000s Python was not only the dominant alternative to Perl for many text parsing tasks typically associated with Perl
When it comes to serious text parsing work, Perl is still the only practical alternative you have. Ever checked upon Perl's Unicode capabilities?
>>2000 – present[/b] Perl 6 "in development"
The development of Perl 6 didn't start in 2000. And Perl 6 and Python aren't even in the same league for comparison.
However the author completely misses the point. I can sit on top of a high priority production issue, just have a big log file. If all I have is that- Perl has the tools to help me get my job done in a couple of hours. Call me back, when Python can help me do that.
>>Perl 6 has been an ongoing development since 2000. Yet after 14 years it is not officially done, making it the equivalent of Chinese Democracy for Guns N’ Roses
Comparing Perl 6 and Python's progress is a bit ridiculous. Merely the ambition and audacity of what Perl 6 is aiming to achieve is what Python would like to in the next 20-30 years of iterative development.
Perl 6 is not your usual language which aims a different syntactical style for decision and iterative statements and then calls it progress. A simple tour of the Perl 6 spec can help you on that.
Something tells me most Python lovers take Perl as a very serious competitor. Else they wouldn't be writing articles like these.
Python's big rise came after hipster crowds got web frameworks written in Python. If you use hibernate or spring in Java, you can only come to love Python's web frameworks. But that time is long gone now. The crowd went to newer languages like Scala and Go. For all practical popularity purposes. Perl and Python are the very same these days.
If you are really worried about popularity. Lets talk of Python's falling popularity compared to languages like Go and Scala.
>>By the late 2000s Python was not only the dominant alternative to Perl for many text parsing tasks typically associated with Perl
When it comes to serious text parsing work, Perl is still the only practical alternative you have. Ever checked upon Perl's Unicode capabilities?
>>2000 – present[/b] Perl 6 "in development"
The development of Perl 6 didn't start in 2000. And Perl 6 and Python aren't even in the same league for comparison.
However the author completely misses the point. I can sit on top of a high priority production issue, just have a big log file. If all I have is that- Perl has the tools to help me get my job done in a couple of hours. Call me back, when Python can help me do that.
>>Perl 6 has been an ongoing development since 2000. Yet after 14 years it is not officially done, making it the equivalent of Chinese Democracy for Guns N’ Roses
Comparing Perl 6 and Python's progress is a bit ridiculous. Merely the ambition and audacity of what Perl 6 is aiming to achieve is what Python would like to in the next 20-30 years of iterative development.
Perl 6 is not your usual language which aims a different syntactical style for decision and iterative statements and then calls it progress. A simple tour of the Perl 6 spec can help you on that.