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Bosque Language vs Perl: What are the differences?
What is Bosque Language? Experimental Programming Language from Microsoft Research. The key design features of the language provide ways to avoid accidental complexity in the development and coding process. The result is improved developer productivity, increased software quality, and enable a range of new compilers.
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.
Bosque Language and Perl belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.
Bosque Language and Perl are both open source tools. Bosque Language with 4.44K GitHub stars and 312 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Perl with 436 GitHub stars and 152 GitHub forks.
Pros of Bosque Language
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
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Cons of Bosque Language
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