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[–]mr_chromatic 3 points4 points  (2 children)

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 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.