@PeterJones said in show the current zoom:
try to start a language-war with the proponents of Python
No saber-rattling detected…or intended with the following:
My history is Perl first, then Python – standalone, not PythonScript.
And both were for text processing type things; for other things I’ve always been a C/C++ person (mainly C).
The old command-line guy in me really liked Perl’s quirkiness, perhaps readers know what I mean … command.com’s interpreter really had/has a bunch of quirks.
However, as much as I liked Perl at the time, I found that if I “put it down” for a while, it was really hard to come back to it (due to ever-advancing age perhaps). With Python, I found it just sort of flows from the fingertips, so to say, and was easy to come back to after some time off. Aside from maintenance of some large scripts I wrote and still use, I haven’t done any new Perl in many years (perhaps a decade?).
I was rather pleased when I discovered Notepad++ and saw that its most popular scripting plugin was Python-based. (This might be the only sentence in the post that is on-topic).
But overall, I see no need for “language wars”.
I’m reminded of the quote from the Lord of the Rings (movies): “Go off and die in whatever manner most suits you” (or something like that).
In this case, “Go off and use whatever language most suits you, as long as it gets your job done”.