Re: [Plug] Which scripting language?

["Bill Jonas" <Bill_Jonas@msn.com>]

> Well if any language could be described as unclean, I guess that'd be
perl.
> It has bits and pieces of most half decent languages out there. It's an

What I meant originally was that I'd heard that Python is "cleaner" in the
sense that There's Not More Than One Way To Do It, which translates to It's
Easier To Understand Someone Else's Code Without Asking The Author What They
Meant  :).  Or, put another way, it lends itself less to obfuscation.  I
suppose that this type of "rigidity" in the language could be considered a
disadvantage, though...

> excellent language though and I'd highly reccomend it. I seem to remember
> something obnoxious aobut functions being dependent on indentation or
> something that I didn't like about Python. Note, I don't know much about

I saw that too, that Python (this is a near direct quote) intuits block
structure from indentation.

> Python, so picking perl shouldn't be considered an opinion I feel too
> strongly about. It's just my general impression that I like it better.
I'll
> stop now as even I with my sleep deprivation addled brain can tell that
I'm
> starting to ramble (more  so than usual).

Naw, I thought you made good sense.  :)

> > > should I start with?  I realize that Perl is established and used more
> >than
> > > Python, but I've heard Very Good Things about Python, namely, that
it's
> >a
> > > "cleaner" language,
> >
> >...and what is meant by "cleaner"?

I meant no offense.  (See above.)

> >Camel book

I keep hearing that....       :)

Bill

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