21 Dec
2004
21 Dec
'04
11:10 a.m.
Christian Frisson wrote:
As I'm a little picky on filenames aesthetics, my
next step is to translate this
script into another language, in order to be able to parse HTML files to get
proper filenames included therein. I've been hesitating between Perl and Python
(as Frank Barknecht advised me before), because both are multi-platform and can
handle audio files, as required for the final project. Which one would best
suit? I've been programming easy student software in C/C++, if it can help.
Hooboy... the subject of many holy wars, is Perl vs Python. While my
experience is with Perl only, to me, it really seems to 6 of one and half a
dozen of the other. They are both excellent choices for scripting. If you are
already familiar with the C/C++ syntax, Perl may have the slight edge for you
since it uses much of the same operators and syntax. Perl, however, has a
reputation for becoming executable line noise. Python, on the other hand, is
more elegant and easier to read (it has the reputation of being executable
pseudo-code), and is more 'object-oriented' than Perl (although Perl does
support object-oriented programming also, in kind of a funky loose spirited way).
I'd say take a look at both languages and try to write something simple first
and see which one feels better for you.