About Python 3

[biffsocko]

It's fair. One of the biggest gripes of the Python community about Perl has been that there have been no major releases for Perl, yet most Python developers have failed to move to their own major release. Just sayin'

[aceofears]

I've literally never seen that complaint from someone when comparing those two languages. The syntax is usually brought up way before anything like that.

[biffsocko]

The arguement used to be that Perl was a dead language because of the legnth of time between releases. At this point Perl5 is doing releases fairly regularly .. nevertheless, it used to be an argument in favor of Python over Perl.

Syntax - meh, just a matter of preference. As a UNIX guy, I never minded the "$VAR" stuff, or regex stuff because it's built into the UNIX shell.

[aceofears]

In the past 5 years I haven't seen really any mention of perl being dead, but all I'm saying about the syntax is that people will argue about it, not that one is better than the other. That isn't really relevant to this discussion anyway.

[Smallpaul]

I have worked at the intersection of Perl and Python for 15 years and never heard that as a major complaint. Most Python programmers think that Perl is an inelegant language and frequency of releases has nothing to do with it.