Pros of Perl

• 72

  Lots of libraries
• 66

  Open source
• 61

  Text processing
• 54

  Powerful
• 49

  Unix-style
• 47

  Regex
• 37

  Stable
• 32

  Concise syntax
• 29

  Hackerish
• 22

  Easy to use
• 16

  Swiss army chainsaw
• 13

  Code Less Do More
• 12

  CPAN
• 9

  Freedom
• 8

  All purpose
• 5

  Readability
• 5

  Familiar
• 5

  Many ways to do it
• 5

  Community
• 4

  Object-Oriented
• 4

  Modular
• 4

  Smart (does alot for you)
• 3

  Postmodern
• 3

  It's the best one-off task language
• 2

  For a man
• 2

  Good man pages
• 1

  Auto case variables
• 1

  Single Source Library (CPAN)
• 1

  Multi-threaded support
• 1

  Multiparadigm
• 1

  C-style
• 1

  Hashes

Pros of Python

• 1.2K

  Great libraries
• 965

  Readable code
• 848

  Beautiful code
• 789

  Rapid development
• 692

  Large community
• 439

  Open source
• 394

  Elegant
• 283

  Great community
• 274

  Object oriented
• 222

  Dynamic typing
• 78

  Great standard library
• 62

  Very fast
• 56

  Functional programming
• 52

  Easy to learn
• 47

  Scientific computing
• 36

  Great documentation
• 30

  Productivity
• 29

  Matlab alternative
• 29

  Easy to read
• 25

  Simple is better than complex
• 21

  It's the way I think
• 20

  Imperative
• 19

  Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
• 19

  Free
• 17

  Powerfull language
• 17

  Machine learning support
• 16

  Fast and simple
• 14

  Scripting
• 12

  Explicit is better than implicit
• 11

  Ease of development
• 10

  Clear and easy and powerfull
• 9

  Unlimited power
• 8

  It's lean and fun to code
• 8

  Import antigravity
• 7

  Print "life is short, use python"
• 7

  Python has great libraries for data processing
• 6

  Although practicality beats purity
• 6

  Fast coding and good for competitions
• 6

  There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
• 6

  High Documented language
• 6

  Readability counts
• 6

  Rapid Prototyping
• 6

  I love snakes
• 6

  Now is better than never
• 6

  Flat is better than nested
• 6

  Great for tooling
• 5

  Great for analytics
• 5

  Web scraping
• 5

  Lists, tuples, dictionaries
• 4

  Complex is better than complicated
• 4

  Socially engaged community
• 4

  Plotting
• 4

  Beautiful is better than ugly
• 4

  Easy to learn and use
• 4

  Easy to setup and run smooth
• 4

  Simple and easy to learn
• 4

  Multiple Inheritence
• 4

  CG industry needs
• 3

  List comprehensions
• 3

  Powerful language for AI
• 3

  Flexible and easy
• 3

  It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
• 3

  Many types of collections
• 3

  If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a g
• 3

  If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
• 3

  Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
• 3

  Pip install everything
• 3

  No cruft
• 3

  Generators
• 3

  Import this
• 2

  Can understand easily who are new to programming
• 2

  Securit
• 2

  Should START with this but not STICK with This
• 2

  A-to-Z
• 2

  Because of Netflix
• 2

  Only one way to do it
• 2

  Better outcome
• 2

  Good for hacking
• 2

  Batteries included
• 2

  Procedural programming
• 1

  Sexy af
• 1

  Automation friendly
• 1

  Slow
• 1

  Best friend for NLP
• 0

  Powerful
• 0

  Keep it simple
• 0

  Ni

Pros of Stan

Cons of Perl

• 4

  Messy $/@/% syntax
• 3

  No exception handling
• 2

  Bad OO support
• 2

  "1;"
• 2

  No OS threads
• 1

  Variables are global by default
• 1

  Copy-on-create for interpreter-based threads
• 1

  Barewords
• 1

  Errors/warnings are ignored by default

Cons of Python

• 53

  Still divided between python 2 and python 3
• 28

  Performance impact
• 26

  Poor syntax for anonymous functions
• 22

  GIL
• 19

  Package management is a mess
• 14

  Too imperative-oriented
• 12

  Hard to understand
• 12

  Dynamic typing
• 12

  Very slow
• 8

  Indentations matter a lot
• 8

  Not everything is expression
• 7

  Incredibly slow
• 7

  Explicit self parameter in methods
• 6

  Requires C functions for dynamic modules
• 6

  Poor DSL capabilities
• 6

  No anonymous functions
• 5

  Fake object-oriented programming
• 5

  Threading
• 5

  The "lisp style" whitespaces
• 5

  Official documentation is unclear.
• 5

  Hard to obfuscate
• 5

  Circular import
• 4

  Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
• 4

  The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
• 4

  Not suitable for autocomplete
• 2

  Meta classes
• 1

  Training wheels (forced indentation)

Cons of Stan