Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt?

Re:Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt? by encoderer on Friday August 31, 2012 @07:53PM (#4462188)

I've not touched Perl aside from modifying and using basic scripts for process automation and administration tasks.

But since you called-out Python and Ruby, I'm curious what you meant.

In Python, for example, interpolation would look like:

print "I ate a %s for %s" % ('banana', 'lunch)

(or the newer way with nominally more keystrokes)

print "I ate a {0} for {1}".format('banana', 'lunch')

I've done plenty of PHP work and I get that I can do "{$varhere}" but for strings of any length or complexity it was totally common to use sprintf() an I have to assume the same readability principles apply in Perl?

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Re:Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt? by ionforce on Friday August 31, 2012 @08:03PM (#4462205)

In Perl you could write

print "I ate a $fruit for $meal"

printf 'I ate a %s for %s', $fruit, $meal

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Re:Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt? by e12e on Saturday September 01, 2012 @07:31AM (#4463424)

"This is %(adjective)s readable Python in %(genetive)s opinion" % {"adjective":"more", "genetive":"my"}

> 'This is more readable Python in my opinion'

edit: variable names

Also, I agree that for this simple case, perl (and other's) simple dollar substitution is nicer.

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Re:Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt? by e12e on Saturday September 01, 2012 @07:45AM (#4463448)

Since there was a mention of extending the language in this thread, there's also:

http://lfw.org/python/Itpl.html

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