Migrating to perl?

[Thomas A. Bryan]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> "Joel Ricker" <joejava at dragonat.net> wrote in message
> news:6Nk56.822$4Z.64804 at news2.atl...
>     [snip]
> > Speaking of which, saw the entries of Obfuscated Code in the FAQ.  Whats
> the
> > c.l.py equivalent of "Just Another Perl Hacker"?
> 
>     print "Just another Python hacker"
> 
> (Python is case-sensitive, so one would not capitalize needlessly, and
> it emphasizes the "one obviously correct way", with straightforwardness
> and simplicity as clear goals...).
> 

That's funny.  Although there *is* more than one way to do this in Python, 
Python users don't seem to care for exercises in finding and displaying 
"neat tricks" in Python.  Most of the newsgroup postings seem to be 
discussion of usage of a particular module, how the language (should) 
work, and implementing a well-designed class/component.

Of course, there was the one time that Gerrit claimed to have ripped 
off the open and close brace keys from his keyboard because of his 
zeal for Python.  I remember a long discussion about how to slice and 
index without brackets.  :)

that-and-monty-python-jokes-ly yours
---Tom