Perl v. Python (was OO.o, was METRO, was...)

[John Abreau]

Ben Scott wrote:

>   The feeling I have is that Python has only started to get
> "mainstream attention" in the past few years, while Perl became
> popular sooner.  If true, one wonders why.  And if true, that might
> also account for some of the "buzz" around Python; Perl isn't as
> "interesting", being more established.  It might also be that Perl is
> seen more as a "boring every-day problem solver".
> 

Perl leveraged a lot from shell scripting; for someone already 
proficient in ksh, awk, and sed, it was extremely simple to transition 
to perl. Essentially, you didn't have to start from scratch; perl felt 
like the same old familiar shell scripting, minus the pain of wrestling 
with awk and sed.

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