[UCLA-LUG] Python programing

[Roberto Congiu]

On 10 May 2000, at 14:56, Luis wrote:

> Just wondering on a couple of things. I just received my linux journal. I 
> been reading on "Python" . Just wondering is python easier then perl or any 
> other program out there. Right now I'm trying to see what i learn first 
> (perl , python) any feed back would be very helpful
> 
IMHO they excel in different things. PERL is great used in place of 
the Unix shell, and great for quick-and-dirty scripts.
But the average perl code is close to unreadable.
Furthermore, perl was not designed to be object oriented (you can 
write object oriented code but it's tricky.), while Python was.
Object orientation is especially useful when building GUIs.
Also, object orientation helps a lot in big projects.
I've been programming PERL for about 4 years now, but I would 
recomend to learn Python first. It's more clean and you can do all 
you can do in PERL. Python is gaining momentum.
I love PERL but...I wouldn't recomend it to a beginner.