Is Perl *that* good? (was: How's ruby compare to it older brother python)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <iL3jc.232$Yc.2330 at news4.e.nsc.no>,
Leif B. Kristensen <junkmail at solumslekt.org> wrote:
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>getting dynamic HTML pages up and running quickly. Perl is great for
>its string-handling abilities. (On my Web pages, I actually call a Perl
>script from PHP precisely for this reason.)
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I hear this more often than I understand it.  Perl certainly
does support many string-oriented operations.  What's a speci-
fic example, though, of an action you feel more comfortable 
coding in external Perl?  I suspect there's something I need
to learn about PHP's deficiencies, or Perl's power.
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