[Sussex] Perl

[Neil Ford]

On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 12:12  pm, Geoff Teale wrote:

> The whole point of a scripting language is to make simple tasks easy to
> automate.  The simple answer is that the syntax and strucuture of Ruby 
> and
> Python are easier to learn than Perl - and from my point of view they 
> more
> naturally support OO - which is a big advantage when you're doing 
> proof of
> concept.
>
Any awful lot of Perl developers would argue otherwise, but then like 
any religious war each side can claim they are right :-)

I suspect Parrot and Perl 6 may well change the balance of power once 
again.

Neil.
(who doesn't code but does know an awful lot or Perl people and has had 
Randal Schwartz stay over)