> But only yesterday afternoon I spent like 2 hours writing a Perl script to heavy lift some Unix file work, which I factored would take a week at-least to do in any other language.
I'm guessing you're more familiar with Perl, because I personally find it hard to believe that Perl by itself is an order of magnitude more efficient to write than Python or Ruby.
>>I personally find it hard to believe that Perl by itself is an order of magnitude more efficient to write than Python or Ruby.
Ruby is ok. But Perl is million times a better language than Python.
Python is an extremely overrated language.
You haven't addressed my (implied) question,though. I don't think that the average Perl programmer is an order of magnitude more productive than the average Python programmer.
Don't know about that. But only yesterday afternoon I spent like 2 hours writing a Perl script to heavy lift some Unix file work, Which I factored would take a week at-least to do in any other language.
Perl is still largely a very useful language without any replacements. So are awk and sed.
Web development world seems to have moved on to something else now.