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by dbi 1628 days ago
In my opinion, as someone who worked a short time in perl, perl is so much harder to learn, especially comming from other programing languages (which most data scientists learn if they started from a degree in computer science/engineering)

One of the main issues I have with perl is the `there is more than one way to do it` slogan, which, for me, means that each person what writes perl, writes practically a different language. This make the bar of starting a new project much higher, even if you have use perl before.