per06a2 | 12 years ago | on: Perl is 26 Today I can't stand perl's philosophy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_more_than_one_way_to_...Contrast with Python's philosophy: https://wiki.python.org/moin/TOOWTDIPython's philosophy may be limiting for some people, but I'd rather have code that I have a decent chance of reading and understanding the run-time behavior of than a language that encourages extreme personalization.The whole parsing thing doesn't help either: http://www.jeffreykegler.com/Home/perl-and-undecidability
Contrast with Python's philosophy: https://wiki.python.org/moin/TOOWTDI
Python's philosophy may be limiting for some people, but I'd rather have code that I have a decent chance of reading and understanding the run-time behavior of than a language that encourages extreme personalization.
The whole parsing thing doesn't help either: http://www.jeffreykegler.com/Home/perl-and-undecidability