Comments on: The Truth of Python and Perl – Features, Pros and Cons Discussed

By: Sammy

Sammy — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 00:57:00 +0000

To state that Perl has issues for code size > 200 lines illustrates the immaturity of the author. I have written industrial quality programs in Perl incorporating thousand of lines spread out across dozens of modules.

By: Andy Mender

Andy Mender — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 09:59:36 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive.

I am very sorry for throwing a tantrum previously, I had a tough day then :/. To be a bit more specific, the problem with this article is not merely that it’s outdated, but that many of the listed points are simply not true and have been mentioned by others already in 2014. For instance, both Perl and Python have an Interpreter mode. Then, you cannot say that Perl is slower, because it’s a scripting language. Python is also a scripting language and suffers similarly. That’s why I wrote one should do proper research before writing an article entitled “The Truth of Python and Perl”.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:13:10 +0000

In reply to Andy Mender.

@Andy,

Thanks for your opinion, and we do respect it, yes I do agree that the article is outdated and haven’t been updated since long time, but now we are taking it on high priority and will soon update this article with latest stuff about Python vs Perl..

By: Andy Mender

Andy Mender — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:03:59 +0000

Although this article is very old, it still pops up in Google searches on the “Perl vs Python” conundrum. For the love of God, please don’t EVER treat this article seriously, folks! It’s not only badly written (that English…), but also full of rubbish. The author has obviously no idea about either of the languages and should do some serious research before writing. Frankly, an utter disgrace to tecmint.com :|.

By: jjolla

jjolla — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:07:42 +0000

In reply to Marco Aurélio.

what precisely is meant by “ugly libraries” ?

imho, CPAN is the silver bullet – Perl programs don’t need to be large at all .. because just about everything you need done has already been published on CPAN. Your program tends to be simple glue more times than not.

Python has awesome math/scientific libraries, and in this space it outshines Perl.