[Discuss] Interpreters vs Compilers

[Steven Kurylo]

>  I'll grant you superiority in handling regular expressions, but I would
>  suggest that for anything over 50-100 lines perl becomes unwieldy - and
>  rapidly unreadable.

While perl makes it very easy to be unreachable, only poor programmers
would have issues after 100 lines!

> I'm not terribly familiar with CPAN (I do know what
>  it is) and am not sure if there's a python equivalent. There do seem to
>  be libraries to do pretty much anything you'd want to do though.

Is there a library to connect to my bank?  I haven't seen one.  CPAN
is the biggest thing I miss when programming in python.  I could list
dozens of others which are non trivial too - half the time I think of
something I need to write in perl and I find it already in CPAN.

>  > > I object in principal to a language that makes me memorise the top
>  > > row of the keyboard, shifted...
>  >
>  > $ and % are only 2 of the 12 keys in the top of my keyboard. :p
>  You mean there aren't variables called, e.g. $# and $_ ? and that the @
>  at the beginning of a name has no significance?

While I now seem to be able to program in python faster than perl, I
don't see this as a major issue.  First I touch type, so it doesn't
matter :-)  Secondly I use ! # % ^ ( ) _ + just as much in python.
Perl just adds $ and @ to the list.

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Steven Kurylo