REPOST: Re: age of new pythonistas [was: The Editor Poll results are in!]

[Ville Vainio]

Tim Hammerquist <tim at vegeta.ath.cx> writes:

> > I think Python is great because it is well designed (unlike Perl),
> 
> Wait, didn't you give up on Perl before you knew it well enough to make
> that kind of statement?

One really doesn't have to know all that much about perl to make that
statement - reading "Programming Perl" or some other perl book is
enough.

Ditto with TCL. When I see 8 backslashes in a row, I look elsewhere
;-).

-- 
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