Comment by Longhanks
3 years ago
If you don’t (need to) care about Unicode, maybe. If you think pythons package management is not disastrous enough, maybe. If you do not (need to) consider Windows, maybe.
Even then, I’d rather choose Python.
3 years ago
If you don’t (need to) care about Unicode, maybe. If you think pythons package management is not disastrous enough, maybe. If you do not (need to) consider Windows, maybe.
Even then, I’d rather choose Python.
> If you don’t (need to) care about Unicode, maybe
Perl has had strong unicode support since Perl v5.12 (~2010).
references: 1. http://xahlee.info/perl/perl_unicode.html 2. https://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129/12458
> If you think pythons package management is not disastrous enough, maybe.
Huh? I've used PAR::Packer with great success since 2005.
> If you do not (need to) consider Windows, maybe.
Microsoft used to ship Perl scripts to work with COM and WMI with their NT4 and Windows 2000 resource kits. Perl works *extremely* well with Windows.
I mean, there are lots of reasons to choose Python over Perl, but IMHO, these are not those reasons.
I use Perl as a better-bash. If I was writing a modern website, a large application, or any ML related work...I'd choose Python. But for complex system administration, I'm picking Perl. YMMV