Who would win in a fight between a Gorilla and a Shark?
OK, maybe you’re thinking that’s a ridiculous question. Perhaps it is. But various forms of this question get asked all the time. Consider this now-ancient Stack Overflow question titled Python v. Perl:
Okay, so I’m finally making the jump into scripting languages and I have decided to focus on either Python or Perl. The problem is: I don’t know which to cut my teeth on.
Most of my programming experience is in C, Java, and C++. There’s no specific task I would be learning Python/Perl for, other that possibly applying it to my dev work to make life easier in general. …
As the newest generation of Stack Exchange sites are launched, one thing I'm envious of is the font style used for coding blocks.
Consider the following program here:
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
printf("Hello World");
}
Compared to the same program on, say, DBA or Code Review:
Whi...
