We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl

Re:We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl by singingfish on Sunday March 17, 2024 @02:35AM (#39732398)

As a medium long time perl guy who's been dragged kicking and screaming to do a bit of python recently I'm going to repeat this here:

Python and perl are actually pretty much exactly the same - analogous to the Judean People's Liberation front versus the People's Liberation front of Judea. However the languages are optimised for a slightly different purpose. Python helps you to think more like the computer does, whereas perl helps the computer to think more like you do.

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Re:We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl by __s on Sunday March 17, 2024 @09:57AM (#39734510)

This can be nice in Python. The `dis` module makes execution pretty transparent, & it's easy enough to know what bytecode a given line will compile to (granted, comprehensions creating closures does make that a bit harder)

CPython's implementation is also straightforward enough that you can look up ceval.c to get a gist of what an opcode is doing

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