Why use Python when we've got Perl?

[Robin Becker]

In article <37B81135.1B598171 at strs.co.uk>, Ian Clarke
<I.Clarke at strs.co.uk> writes
>My apologies, this is wandering off-topic, I will keep it short.
>
>Ok, so your point is that I was inciting flames, but that is not in
>itself a bad thing.  I can live with that.
>
>> comp.lang.perl.misc is primarily for talking about Perl, not trying to
>> defend Perl to a Python advocate.  I'm sure the converse is true of
>> comp.lang.python.  Someone who starts a language advocacy flamewar and
>> then plays innocent about it isn't exactly holding the moral high ground.
>
>I never claimed to be perfect, Tom's post just angered me as he was
>accusing me of fanning the flames where as in he was contributing much
>more to the whole thing than I was.
>
>Ian.
I own up to a bit of flame fanning. With TC & perl it's just too
tempting.
-- 
Robin Becker