Why use Perl when we've got Python?!

[Robin Becker]

In article <37c126a6$0$813 at newsreader.alink.net>, xah <xah at weborder.com>
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>Tom Christiansen wrote in message <37b414d7 at cs.colorado.edu>...
>>     [courtesy cc of this posting mailed to cited author]
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>>Legibility is purely subjective.
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>>How legible do you find Greek, Arabic, Russian, or Chinese?  And what
>>does the character set actually have to do with any inherent complexity
>>of the grammar or richness of expressive vocabulary?
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>>Answer: nothing whatsoever.
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>I'd like to extend what Tom Chrisiansen has said.
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>On a personal note...  Do you know what a computer science degree is these
>days? They require you understand shits like lambda calculus, logic, graph
>theory, combinatorics, or even algorithms?? All for what? All the Perl
>programers I know doesn't understand any of these, and they all are making
>big bucks in fortune 500. I'm not ashamed that I dropped out of school. I
>hope that Larry and Tom's teachings will eventually make such subjects
>disappear for good.
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presumably they'll stop schools in Kansas teaching bible studies in
favour Larry & Tom readings.
>My humble $0.02.
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> Xah
> xah at best.com
> http://www.best.com/~xah/PageTwo_dir/more.html
> "Your nonsense is no better than mine."   --Mathematician of metaland.
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Robin Becker