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Re: Honest question about Perl, Python and Ruby (Comparing Programming Languages References)

by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop)
on Feb 07, 2015 at 04:41 UTC ( [id://1115827]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Honest question about Perl, Python and Ruby

This type of question comes up so often, I've created a list I can use next time it's asked.

Python fanatic betmatt's Questions Comparing Perl to Python

Don't want these to clutter the main list:

Older Nodes (2001-2019)

Recent Nodes (2020-2022)

Quora References

TIOBE References

Related Nodes

Teamwork:

From Green Vs Brown Programming Languages (earthly.dev blog)

It's harder to read code than to write it -- Joel Spolsky
... writing something new is cognitively less demanding (and more fun) than the hard work of understanding an existing codebase, at least initially

Scott Adams cartoon:
Developer: The project I inherited has weak code, I need to rewrite it from scratch
Boss: Will there ever be an engineer who says, the last guy did a great job, let's keep all of it?
Developer: I'm hoping the idiot you hire to replace me says that

... if you build new things in Go but have to maintain a sprawling 20-year-old C++ codebase, can you rank them fairly? I think this is actually what the survey question is measuring. Dreaded languages are likely to be used in existing brown-field projects. Loved languages are more often used in new green-field projects.

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