Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?
by lelanthran on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @02:19AM
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> Perl and python have opposite philosophies with regards to standards. Python prefers a standard "pythonic" way, while perl had its "there is more than one way to do it".
It wasn't just "having a standard" that mattered; in Perl it was actively encouraged to find a different way of doing something.
"There is more than one way to do it" was often taken by the Perl programmer as a challenge to find all the other ways, and then use them all in different parts of the same program.
It wasn't just "having a standard" that mattered; in Perl it was actively encouraged to find a different way of doing something.
"There is more than one way to do it" was often taken by the Perl programmer as a challenge to find all the other ways, and then use them all in different parts of the same program.