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0 pointssigzero11y ago0 comments

> A library and a language are apples and oranges. Python's library ecosystem is more comprehensive than Perl's language. Because most any language minus all of its libraries is less "comprehensive" than another language's libraries, simply because most mature library ecosystems are much more massive than the language itself.

That doesn't even make sense.

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DonHopkins11y ago

What he said, "Also, Perl's library system, CPAN, is far more comprehensive than many languages", doesn't make sense, because he's comparing a "library" to "languages": apples and oranges.

wantarray11y ago

Come on now, it's clear that he meant to compare CPAN to the corresponding module repositories of those other languages.

DonHopkins11y ago

I was only taking what he literally wrote at face value. I'd expect a Perl programer to be more careful with punctuation that that. ;)

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0 pointssigzero11y ago0 comments

That doesn't even make sense.

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DonHopkins11y ago

What he said, "Also, Perl's library system, CPAN, is far more comprehensive than many languages", doesn't make sense, because he's comparing a "library" to "languages": apples and oranges.

wantarray11y ago

Come on now, it's clear that he meant to compare CPAN to the corresponding module repositories of those other languages.

DonHopkins11y ago

I was only taking what he literally wrote at face value. I'd expect a Perl programer to be more careful with punctuation that that. ;)

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