Why use Perl when we've got Python?!

[Bart Lateur]

John W. Stevens wrote:

>By your reasoning, Perl is very, very inconsistent (since not every
>data type supports '+').

You're looking for the Holy Grail of orthogonality, again. Python is
designed with orthogonality in mind, while Larry Wall allegedly once
said:

    "Any computer scientist who praises orthogonality should be
     sentenced to use an Etch-a-Sketch."

(borrowed from a TomC sig)

	Bart.