Why use Perl when we've got Python?!

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In article <7putsq$3ql$1 at lycaeus.calstatela.edu>, ramune at bigfoot.com 
says...
> In article <slrn7s2lb3.k6b.abigail at alexandra.delanet.com>,
> Abigail <abigail at delanet.com> wrote:
> [snip amusing rant]
> >Yeah, those math texts from the 16th and 17th century, they are sooooo easy
> >to read, because they lack all the symbols. Not to mention the original
> >Euclid and those other Greeks, who had no symbols at all!
> 
> <GRIN>
> Oh, but they're written with only symbols!  All those confusing greek symbols
> that mathematicians use are the basic building blocks for the language!  Why
> didn't they just use English?
> </GRIN>

  Hmm that might be a bit off, the anchient Greeks had no concept of 
variables, thus you would never see f(x)= 2y in any old greek 
mathematics. IIRC variables were discovered(?) by Al-Jabar sometime 
after.
  Thus the Greeks certainly did not use symbols, and it held back 
mathematics. Not that this applies to python vs. perl.