Perl Vs Python

[Peter Hansen]

(Troll-bait cross-post to comp.lang.perl.misc removed.)

Matija Papec wrote:
> 
> X-Ftn-To: Cameron Laird
> 
> claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) wrote:
> >In article <b3kkdl$fvl$1 at news.peterlink.ru>,
> >Anton Muhin  <antonmuhin at sendmail.ru> wrote:
> >>If you are interested, there is really nice book about text processing
> >>in Python (I don't remember URL :().
> >                       .
> >                       .
> >Sean McGrath's *XML Processing with Python*?
> 
> Yes, but anyway who would pick Python over Perl(or Ruby?) for text
> processing? <evil grin> :)

Those who need to maintain their code perhaps?

Anyway, XML is not text.

Well, it's stored in "text files", but it's not text.

If you know what I mean.

(If it were just text, we would still be using text, not XML.)

Anyway.... ;-)

-Peter