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0 pointsrotterdamdev6y ago0 comments

Perl came as a reaction to the Unix tooling that was awk regex and all that jazz. It was designed to replace those tools and it did a good job at that. Times have changed, however, and perl no longer fills a function. We have python now, which surpasses perl in functionality.

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b2gills6y ago

What functionality does Python have that Perl doesn't?

I'm legitimately asking because I'm pretty sure there is almost no functionality in Python that isn't in Perl.

In fact of the features I've read about that changed between Python 2 and 3, all of them remind me of a change in Perl. Except Perl didn't break old code in the process.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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b2gills6y ago

What functionality does Python have that Perl doesn't?

I'm legitimately asking because I'm pretty sure there is almost no functionality in Python that isn't in Perl.

In fact of the features I've read about that changed between Python 2 and 3, all of them remind me of a change in Perl. Except Perl didn't break old code in the process.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse