alt Hacker NewsIt could have used a good "Perl: the Good Parts" book.
With a team where everybody wrote it in a similar style, Perl did perfectly well. Mod_perl was fast. I liked Perl.
Then Django came out, and then Numpy, and Perl lost. But Python is still so incredibly slow....
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creer • yesterday at 7:22 PM
Mostly - from here - python is so incredibly slow to write. Who has this kind of time?
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Check out "Perl Best Practices" by Damien Conway, and the more recent "Modern Perl" by Chromatic. Both can be had as paperbacks, and I think both are also available free on online.