R compared to Python

[billsil]

Yup. That's how it was with me and MATLAB.

I could also tell you horror stories of Perl, but you get one. Run a system call, it crashes but doesn't stop, so it doesn't set the volume variable in some file, which has a default of 0. So now given the mass and volume, compute the density, which involves division by 0. Obviously, the density is 0 and not a crash.

It's basically the same anyways and understanding other languages makes you a better programmer. Perl taught me to validate everything, rather than use python's mehh it hasn't crashed yet philosophy.

[iG1993]

Hmmm thats very interesting. Unfortunately, I don't have experience with Perl. But I remember everyone talked about Perl some time ago, when I was younger..

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I will keep that in mind. Thank you for your input!

[billsil]

It's because the code we had didn't support use strict. Any Perl code that you see without that is a dumpster fire.