Eyes wide shut
I’ve had a lot of misconceptions about Perl (more info) over the years even though I’ve never touched the language. Yes, I do know that it’s an extremely powerful language for handling system administration and text processing duties. It’s also great for writing complex applications and everything in between. Well, after perusing the replies from numerous Perl experts in this forum, I finally get it. Perl suffers from a few misconceptions that’s seen PHP, Python and even Ruby gain prominence at her expense. Now, I’m not knocking those 3 languages. They are incredible.

Snake eyes
Besides, Python is definitely going to be my secret weapon in future application development projects. Why? Well take a peek at these 3 links (here, here, here). Oh, you gotta check out this amazing quote:

“The computing landscape has been transformed over the course of the last decade from one focused on the PC to a new web-based model where many of the new killer applications run on the LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl/PHP/Python) platform. In the new paradigm applications are continually updated as new data becomes available and dynamic languages like Python are an essential key to this shift.

But even non-programmers like me know Python is good for a whole heck of a lot more than web programming. It’s a highly adaptable (and scalable), full-featured, object-oriented programming language that’s suitable for a wide variety of jobs. Its stable and mature, has large and powerful standard libraries, and integrates extremely well with C, C++, or Java code, and COM objects. The future looks bright for Python and its with great delight that I’m finally posting this booklet of Python Success Stories.”

As you can see, the slippery “sssnake” takes a back seat to no one. All I’m saying is that Perl truly is a remarkable language, and now I understand why Perlites (Perl programmers) are so passionate about their language. Read more.