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Perl vs Pharo: What are the differences?
What is Perl? Highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 26 years of development. Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.
What is Pharo? The immersive programming experience. A pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
Perl and Pharo can be categorized as "Languages" tools.
Perl is an open source tool with 436 GitHub stars and 152 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Perl's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of Pharo
Pros of Perl
- Lots of libraries72
- Open source66
- Text processing61
- Powerful54
- Unix-style49
- Regex47
- Stable37
- Concise syntax32
- Hackerish29
- Easy to use22
- Swiss army chainsaw16
- Code Less Do More13
- CPAN12
- Freedom9
- All purpose8
- Readability5
- Familiar5
- Many ways to do it5
- Community5
- Object-Oriented4
- Modular4
- Smart (does alot for you)4
- Postmodern3
- It's the best one-off task language3
- For a man2
- Good man pages2
- Auto case variables1
- Single Source Library (CPAN)1
- Multi-threaded support1
- Multiparadigm1
- C-style1
- Hashes1
Pros of Pharo
- Purely object-oriented3
- Readable code3
- Image-based instead of source-file based3
- Great tooling3
- Dinamic live programming3
- Great syntax for anonymous functions (blocks)3
- Minimalist syntax3
- Programming in the debugger3
- Simple OOP3
- Great DSL capabilities3
- Interactive development2
- Great visualization tools2
- Great IDE2
- Open Source2
- Rapid development2
- Git integration out-of-the-box2
- Batteries included1
- Headless (CLI) support1
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Cons of Perl
Cons of Pharo
Cons of Perl
- Messy $/@/% syntax4
- No exception handling3
- Bad OO support2
- "1;"2
- No OS threads2
- Variables are global by default1
- Copy-on-create for interpreter-based threads1
- Barewords1
- Errors/warnings are ignored by default1
Cons of Pharo
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What is Perl?
Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for
text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including
system administration, web development, network programming, GUI
development, and more.
What is Pharo?
A pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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