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

[Cameron Laird]

In article <gxcjc.321$Yc.3829 at news4.e.nsc.no>,
Leif B. Kristensen <junkmail at solumslekt.org> wrote:
>Cameron Laird rose and spake:
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>> I continue to conclude that all these languages are
>> roughtly equally competent at managing strings.
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>Perhaps, but right now I think that I'm in love with Python. Consider
>these two equivalent routines in PHP and Python:
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		[marvelous, if
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		example]
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>My PHP coding may be suboptimal, but in terms both of codability and
>readability as well as in sheer elegance, I find the Python version
>superior in any way.
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I consider infatuation with Python entirely healthy.  In
fact, I often *do* argue just the same position as you 
take here:  that Python is strongly and demonstrably superior
to PHP.  I just want to be as precise as I can about what the
differences are.
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Cameron Laird <claird at phaseit.net>
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