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On Sunday, May 22, 2011 12:44:18 AM UTC-7, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> I've noticed that on many Perl mailing lists the list members talk very
> rarely about Python, but only on this Python mailing list I read many
> discussions about Perl, in which most of the participants use to agree th=
at
> yes, Python is better, as it shouldn't be obvious that most of the list
> members prefer Python.

Evidently Perl users choose to bash other languages in those languages' own=
 mailing lists.


> If Python would be so great, you wouldn't talk so much about how bad are
> other languages,

Sure we would.  Sometimes it's fun to sit on your lofty throne and scoff at=
 the peasantry.


> or if these discussions are not initiated by envy, you would
> be also talking about how bad is Visual Basic, or Pascal, or Delphi, or w=
ho
> knows other languages.

I would suggest that envy isn't the reason, the reason is that Perl is just=
 that much worse than Visual Basic, Pascal, and Delphi.  We only make fun o=
f the really, really bad langauges.

(Or, less cynically, it's because Perl and Python historically filled the s=
ame niche, whereas VB, Pascal, and Delphi were often used for different sor=
ts of programming.)


What I'm trying to say here is your logic is invalid.  People have all kind=
s of reasons to badmouth other languages; that some mailing list has a cult=
ure that is a bit more or a bit less approving of it than some other list t=
ells us nothing.  In any case it's ridiculous to claim envy as factor nowad=
ays, as Python is clearly on the rise while Perl is on the decline.  Few pe=
ople are choosing Perl for new projects.


Carl Banks