Why I Stuck With Perl
I've just read a very thoughtful description of why one Perl programmer switched to Python. In this blog post, I'll explain why I did not.
When I started on the Marpa project, Perl was not an automatic choice. In fact it looked like it might be the wrong one. There was as much buzz for Python then as now. Maybe more. I'd had my own experience with Python, and it was excellent. I'd used Python to create a threaded mail client for testing purposes. I found P…