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Joel Meulenberg joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 23 16:57:39 CDT 2001


> I did a quick search for "Java versus Perl" type articles, but didn't
> find much.  If I find anything, I'll be sure to forward it to the
> list.

Here's an interesting article comparing Python (very similar to Perl,
but "cleaner") to Java.  (If Perl didn't exist today or hadn't existed
before Python, I'd be doing a lot of programming in Python.)  I
especially like the code snippet comparisons.  The amount of code to
accomplish those tasks is essentially the same in both Perl and Python.
 The amount of code you have to write in Java is significantly greater:
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/users/glyph/rant/python-vs-java.html

This "Tale of Five Languages" is amusing: 
http://www.python.org/doc/langquest.html

Here's an article entitled "What's wrong with Perl" that favors Python
over Perl, but also mentions Java a little along the way:
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/perl.html

Here's an old article about Java and Perl:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/versus/java.html

Here's a good comparison of languages to Python from Python's primary
author:
http://python.bilkent.edu.tr/doc/essays/comparisons.html

Sorry most of these are all so Python oriented.  I just kept finding
interesting articles that favored Python.  Many of Python's strengths
are also Perl's strengths (those that are unique to Python are stressed
in the articles).  Of course, Python doesn't have as large a user base
as Perl.  Nor does it have a code library as comprehensive as the Perl
CPAN.

+Joel





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