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

[leeg]

Cameron Laird wrote:

> In article <c6jdsu$n1j$1 at news.ox.ac.uk>,
> leeg  <leeg at teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk.valid> wrote:
>>I use POSIX-ey stuff and interfaces to lumps of code written in
>>other languages, so Python could be Perl or Objective-C or C or Pascal or
>>anything as far as I care; I just happen to be able to write correct code
>>fairly quickly in Python.  I hope that makes sense :-)
> .
> So we're concluding that people use most languages because they
> must, to access some specific curd of functionality, but Python
> is different, and simply doesn't get in the way?  How flattering!

Well, it doesn't get in the way for *coding*.  It does for *running*; so
sometimes I code in Python then rewrite in C to run.  But yeah, that's the
general idea :-)
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Graham Lee
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