Perl or Python?

[Rajinder Yadav]

I came across this on the Python page:

"Because of its more general data types Python is applicable to a much larger problem domain than Awk or even Perl, yet many things are at least as easy in Python as in those languages."

The reason I am asking is if I wanted to write my own simple package manager for the Linux distro I am planning to created from scratch I would like to have a script language to do all this in to automate steps, etc.

Yes I am well aware there are package managers out there for me to use.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Rajinder Yadav <devguy-DaQTI0RpDDMAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Rajinder Yadav <devguy at ymail.com>
> Subject: [TLUG]: Perl or Python?
> To: "[TLUG]" <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
> Received: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 3:41 PM
> 
> I am considering investing some time learning a script
> language to automate stuff etc.
> 
> Has anyone here used both/either perl and python? I would
> like to get their feel on which is better for writing
> powerful yet simple scripts? I am a C++ developer so I don't
> need to learn about programming, just want to know which of
> the two script is really easy to pick up and has all the
> module support I could ever need?
> 
> I assume python was designed to be object-oriented from the
> start and thus would lend to clean OO coding. Can python do
> everything perl can in terms of text manipulation and
> extraction?
> 
> comments, feedback welcome.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Rajinder Yadav
> 
> 
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