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

[Skip Montanaro]

    Peter> I guess it would be interesting to pose the question back to them
    Peter> "If you could not use regexes in Perl, would you still like to
    Peter> program in it?" or "If you couldn't use mysql in PHP would you
    Peter> still use it?"

    Peter> What similar question, if any, would be a difficult one for us
    Peter> Python types?

"If Python didn't support indentation-based block structure would you still
use it?"

:-)

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