Re:The joy of Perl
by bane on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @08:54AM
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Python does an admirable job of being pretty fun to hack in (you're right, not as much fun as Perl, but not bad), but the end result is that the code is far more readable for others and I think works a bit better in large scale production environments. Perl has come a long way as a response, but there's no doubt that Python ends up with cleaner code.
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Perl is still an excellent glue language.
The way we are moving towards things in LedgerSMB is:
Web and file format (csv, latex, etc) templates in TemplateToolkit
Everything that can be done as set operations in the db in the process of storing/retrieving info is done in PL/PGSQL.
A brief framework written in Perl
And the rest of the Perl code essentially is written to be very light-weight automation glue between these layers.