Sridhar R wrote on Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 12:11:22AM -0800:
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| Readability also matters! Perl has its own strengths. Please don't
| flame on it.
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perl code isn't "always" unreadable. It depends largely on the
programmer. One can write line-noise python code as well as
poems-that-work in perl. Only that it takes an effort from the
programmer.
Also there could be a variety of reasons why one would want to choose
perl / python for a given problem. Not always does readability matter
and not always does performance matter. It Depends.
Look at this page for example:
http://www.bagley.org/~doug/shootout/index2.shtml
you can't just generalise that python is THE best or perl is THE best
for any given application. It Depends. :)
and besides the point of readability, there are "better" ways of
messing up code by over {OOPing,optimising,abstracting}. ;)
cheers,
-Suraj
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