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Re: How I learnt to love Perl by gaius on Sunday December 07, 2008 @04:10PM (#389114)
Hence the saying only Perl can parse Perl. Which is fine for 100-line scripts but for 50,000 line projects written by many people over many years (these exist!) it means you get basically zero tool support. Both Python and Tcl scale much more cleanly from small one-off scripts to larger applications (as well as any weakly dynamically typed language can, anyway).
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Re: How I learnt to love Perl by SwellJoe on Sunday December 07, 2008 @06:43PM (#389273)
Our projects total about 450,000 lines of Perl code. I've worked on one large Python project (SciPy), and found it similarly comfortable. I didn't feel major pains going either direction (from Perl to Python or back to Perl again).

I also spent some time with a large Tcl project (OpenACS) and found it very painful. But, I've never learned Tcl with as much enthusiasm as I learned Perl or Python, so I might be wrong. Actually maybe it's just CMS that really suck. I hated spelunking in Zope, and I hate working with Joomla (for different, but no less strongly held, reasons).

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Re: How I learnt to love Perl by chorny on Sunday December 14, 2008 @03:38PM (#397624)
You can parse Perl with PPI (look at your nearest CPAN mirror).
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