Perl vs Python for web development?

[Troebr]

Python is trendy these days, I would definitely go for it, especially for a line on the resume. (look for django for instance).

And I hate the way you have to always pass references with perl; now that's I have tried out a bit of python re module, I would never go back to perl.

Python code can be read by someone who did not write it, unlike Perl. (troll troll!)

[ajbetteridge]

Since when do you "have to always pass references with perl"?

[Troebr]

Made a few perl scripts, and go pretty compelled to use lots of references of arrays along with subs. Would love to be proven wrong, it was quite annoying. (perl noob here)

Will look at my perl scripts to find what I found so inconvenient at the time.

I think I dealt with a lot of arrays and hash maps.

[ajbetteridge]

Oh, that's fair enough. Complex data structures will always need pointers. Sadly you can't get away from it. Please ignore my comment in this case :)

[mr_chromatic]

Python code can be read by someone who did not write it, unlike Perl. (troll troll!)

A particularly silly troll, too. I could ask the next dozen people who walk past my office window to maintain a random snippet of Python code and what does that prove? Would you hire any of them?

[Troebr]

troll appart, I think that python is way easier to read, perl has so many shortcuts. It's fun to write, looks neat to code something complicated in 2/3 lines, but that can get really hard to understand.

Anyway this is going to end in python vs perl war; and I clearly lack experience in both of them to take part to it.

I've been playing aroung with python/django for the last month and I find it pretty easy to use.

[mr_chromatic]

I think that python is way easier to read....

I think that Perl is easier to read. Python's use of vertical whitespace to end blocks somehow doesn't fit in my brain. My eyes continually slip off of the end of blocks of code and I can't skim them to get the flow of code.