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

[Roy Smith]

In article <108qhidjthjpdc0 at corp.supernews.com>,
 claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) wrote:

> In article <knbjc.267$id.3998 at news2.e.nsc.no>,
> Leif B. Kristensen <junkmail at solumslekt.org> wrote:
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> >which can be spelled in an amazing number of different ways. As I found
> >that the Soundex algorithm was useless for Norwegian spellings, I
> >invented my own. It's not really an algorithm, but a series of
> >substitutions that reduces names to a kind of primitives. Thus, eg.
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> "Canonicalization" is one name in academic English for this transformation.

But is it the cannonical name?