In Praise of Perl 5

Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by davvid on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:09AM (#7317556)

basically everything else that Perl offers

...except for performance. The GIL is Python's achilles heel; if you throw threads at the problem Python gets slower while Perl actually uses all your cores. C.f. http://yaketyhack.blogspot.com/2010/07/threading-perl-vs-pyt...

BTW, I love Python.

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Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by otterley on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:11AM (#7317800)

Also, a good debugger. Perl's debugger is still far, far better than Python's or Ruby's.

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Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by collyw on Friday February 28, 2014 @05:55AM (#7318064)

Is it?

I generally use a graphical debugger in Eclipse. I have used Python and Perl, and can't see too much difference between them. Whats better about the Perl one?

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Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by kbenson on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:27AM (#7317583)

Pfft, that guy obviously doesn't know how to use code blocks. :D

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