Is Perl *that* good?

[Peter Hansen]

Michael Geary wrote:

> Robert Brewer wrote:
> 
>>I wish Python had won, as well. But time is linear (in
>>my mind). I now wish only that we could leverage the
>>similarity of JS and Python (execution and binding
>>models) into more Python users. Marketing needs
>>to run with the line, "So you know Javascript? Then
>>you know Python!"
> 
> That was my impression of Python when I started using it after some
> extensive JavaScript work: "Cool! It's just like JavaScript but with a lot
> more goodies!" The two languages struck me as very similar. Even though
> JavaScript *looks* like C, it *works* much more like Python.

I learned Javascript after learning Python. (That is, up until that
point, I coded Javascript like a script kiddie, copying and tweaking
without understanding.)  It was the similarities with Python that
actually let me start to respect it somewhat.  I thought "Cool!  It's
just like Python but with less power and an uglier syntax!"  :-)

-Peter