Re: python vs perl lines of code

Edward Elliott wrote:
John Bokma wrote:

Without seeing the actual code this is quite meaningless.


Evaluating my experiences yes, relating your own no.

Well, quality of code is directly related to its author. Without knowing the author personally, or at least seeing the code, your anecdote doesn't really mean anything.

A colleague of mine, who is efficient at programming, and pretty decent at Perl, routinely does something like:

if ($var =~ /something and something else/) {
$var =~ /(something) and (something else)/;
my $match1 = $1;
my $match2 = $2;
...
}

Needless to say, this adds a lot of unnecessary redundancy, which will go towards increasing your character count. Being an avid Perl Golfer (although not one of the best) I can almost guarantee that any python code can be written more succinctly in Perl, although readability will suffer. Plus, the extensibility argument is very subjective, and is closely related to personal coding style.

Btw, do you include space chars that go toward indentating Python code in your count? If not, you should since they are required. Not so for Perl.

--Ala

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