The only reasons I could think to use perl over Python are regex execution speed and 'maybe' infeasibility of accessing PyPI so you'd need more built-ins, but still have plenty of disk space... though I haven't done any feature parity comparisons there.
Am I missing anything?
I liked Perl back in the day and used it a lot but even my old sweet-jesus-what-was-I-thinking Python code is a LOT more readable than my cleanest old Perl code.
I'd be curious to hear from folks who've also been deep in Python and Perl but stuck with Perl rather than Python— different use cases? Coding styles?
Am I missing anything?
I liked Perl back in the day and used it a lot but even my old sweet-jesus-what-was-I-thinking Python code is a LOT more readable than my cleanest old Perl code.
I'd be curious to hear from folks who've also been deep in Python and Perl but stuck with Perl rather than Python— different use cases? Coding styles?