[NBLUG/talk] Perl vs other scripting methods

Walter Hansen gandalf at sonic.net
Mon May 8 15:58:56 PDT 2006


> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:51 -0700, Walter Hansen wrote:
<snip>
>> I'll probably just be one of the din, but php is a great language for
>> web
>> pages, probaly the best, but for server work I'd choose perl. Also the
>> coding is very similar. I doubt you'd have much trouble even after 15
>> years.
>
>
> Walter,
>
> My preference for scripting nowadays (last 4 years) is Python. If you
> are interested to have some fun while solving your real problem, pick up
> Python. It is very easy to learn, a very natural and fun language. You
> can get everything done with it just like with Perl, but you will have a
> very readable and maintainable script. I have not yet tried Ruby yet,
> but people say similar good things about it.
>
> /zsolt

????? WTF?????




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