Is Perl *that* good?

[Michael Geary]

Paul Prescod wrote:
> And I think Python has a claim to the first Web robot:
>
> http://www.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0060.html

That's a fascinating little bit of history, especially this:

"I have written a robot that does this, except it doesn't check for valid
SGML -- it just tries to map out the entire web. I believe I found roughly
50 or 60 different sites..."

-Mike