converting perl to python - simple questions.

[Dan Schmidt]

aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:

| In article <m3so9lc219.fsf at deneb.cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de>,
| Florian Weimer  <fw at cygnus.stuttgart.netsurf.de> wrote:
| >
| >(Quotation from the Perl 4 manpage.  This version doesn't have an
| >`exists' function.)
| 
| Then you've just made a completely irrelevant comment, on the order
| of referring to Python 1.2.  Perl 5 has been out for more than two
| years, and there are so many improvements that I don't know of
| *anyone* who's doing new work in Perl 4.

Four and a half, actually; Perl 5.000 was released in October 1994,
exactly a week after Python 1.1.  In fact, Perl 5 has been the current
version longer than Perl 4 was (Perl 4 was released in March 1991, so
it was the newest version for only three and a half years).  

(References: perlhist manpage, and Misc/HISTORY in the Python source
distribution.)

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