Re:Why I Use Perl: Testing
by kamaal on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @10:36AM
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Python and Perl communities are both pretty matured in terms of their overall ecosystem.
The difference is in their niche. Perl continues to retain its niche on the CPAN end- To provide solutions to nearly every problem you are likely to face. Its also very easy to rapidly prototype with Perl, you can build things very quickly, there is tons of documentation, help and nearly all your day to day problems have been solved and answered somewhere or the other.
Unicode, CPAN, Regular Expression, Functional Programming, Text Processing, Data Processing, Large Data Munging et al continue to remain Perl's core strengths. You also have good web frameworks these days.
If you have a little time for learning great programming stuff you must take time to read Higher Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus which is a free book.
The difference is in their niche. Perl continues to retain its niche on the CPAN end- To provide solutions to nearly every problem you are likely to face. Its also very easy to rapidly prototype with Perl, you can build things very quickly, there is tons of documentation, help and nearly all your day to day problems have been solved and answered somewhere or the other.
Unicode, CPAN, Regular Expression, Functional Programming, Text Processing, Data Processing, Large Data Munging et al continue to remain Perl's core strengths. You also have good web frameworks these days.
If you have a little time for learning great programming stuff you must take time to read Higher Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus which is a free book.