You can quote all the "facts" you want, but I've done a lot of both Python and Perl, and it's a lot easier to walk cold into a bunch of Python code, even badly written Python. What you call "superficially more visually similar", I call consistency. If I have to use conscious thought to figure out the structure of the code, it's taking from the conscious thought I need to understand its function.
And yes, Perl is even more powerful than Ruby when it comes to making code compact, but compactness and eloquence are two different things.
And yes, Perl is even more powerful than Ruby when it comes to making code compact, but compactness and eloquence are two different things.
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