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Re:Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++? by oblio on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @11:16AM (#16537359)
> 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.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++? by kamaal on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @10:58PM (#16542170)
>>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.

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Re:Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++? by oblio on Thursday March 08, 2018 @06:00AM (#16543620)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++? by vgy7ujm on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:13AM (#16542877)
Well said!
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