Check this out: http://hyperpolyglot.org/scripting.
It's a side-by-side comparison of PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby. I'm not sure why, but it seems sort of cool.
Things like "offside rule" to describe indentation in Python are confusing at first. The "regions which define local scope" section on Python makes precious …
more ...The Alex Handy story Study Predicts Upswing in Dynamic Language Use is old news, but when it's in a print publication like SD Times, then it starts to gain some traction. And it's one of those journalistic things: you can't repeat the obvious without some kind of "angle". And the …
more ...Perl's old. And Perl is without shame about adopting every syntax gimmick on earth. Consequently, Perl has accreted enough features that Perl programs are hard to read, making them impossible to maintain. More thoughts on this opacity problem in Gadgetopia http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/1919 and Freshmeat …