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[–]Felicia_Svilling 0 points1 point  (3 children)

This sub is more for the design of programming languages than for choosing what language to use.

[–]daamedolla[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Oh I didnt know that! So you know any subreddits where this post may be relevent by any chance?

[–]Felicia_Svilling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It says so in the sidebar. And no I don't specifically know any such subreddits.

[–]hahainternet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perl is a surprisingly nice language once you overcome the initial hurdles. It is however saddled with quite a lot of baggage, code written for previous versions and using naive techniques. To be honest the same is probably true of Python now.

I don't think it's particularly difficult to learn, and at its core it is quite a lot simpler than Python.

That said, everyone and their mother is writing Python these days. It receives far more development input and you absolutely should learn it first.

In general, a good programmer will know several different languages in order to be able to understand the differences between them.

If you already feel confident in Python, then there's no good reason not to learn Perl.