[caracas-pm] [OT]python vs. perl (according to Yoda)

Rubén clmorphes at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 05:39:32 PDT 2005


Hola a todos,

Esto es algo que apareció en mi bandeja y quise compartir con todos
ustedes, espero lo disfruten como yo. Según los programadores en perl
son seguidores del _Lado oscuro de la fuerza_, jeje...

EXTERIOR: DAGOBAH -- DAY
           With Yoda strapped to his back, Luke climbs up one of the
        many thick vines that grow in the swamp until he reaches the
        Dagobah statistics lab. Panting heavily, he continues his
        exercises -- grepping, installing new packages, logging in as
        root, and writing replacements for two-year-old shell scripts
        in Python.

YODA: Code!  Yes.  A programmer's strength flows from code maintainability.
      But beware of Perl.  Terse syntax... more than one way to do it...
      default variables.  The dark side of code maintainability are they.
      Easily they flow, quick to join you when code you write.  If once
      you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny,
      consume you it will.

LUKE: Is Perl better than Python?

YODA: No... no... no.  Quicker, easier, more seductive.

LUKE: But how will I know why Python is better than Perl?

YODA: You will know.  When your code you try to read six months from
      now.

Rubén


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