[rescue] Python > 3.6 on Solaris 10

[Dave McGuire]

On 10/16/21 5:19 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>     Well I certainly can't disagree with you there. (and I'm someone who
>> can almost always find a way to disagree)  I'm no big fan of Python; any
>> language in which whitespace is a syntactic element rubs me the wrong
>> way.  But Perl still looks like line noise to me.
> 
> The thing is, it doesn't HAVE to.
> 
> It certainly CAN.  And some people think that because it CAN, it SHOULD.
> But they're wrong.

   I agree.

> It sounds to me like your actual objection to Perl is that a lot of
> people write crappy, unreadable, idiomatic Perl code.  Perl *can* be
> abused in that way, certainly.

   Yes, you're mostly right I think.  But there are a few more things 
about Perl and its ecosystem that I don't like.  Personally, I'm a bit 
more grown up than to use keywords like "chomp", "die", etc.  But that's 
really just personal preference.

> But so can, for example, C.

   Very true.  And the corollary being, of course, that a good C 
programmer can write C in any language. B-)

            -Dave

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