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

[John Roth]

"Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message
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>     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?"
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>     Peter> What similar question, if any, would be a difficult one for us
>     Peter> Python types?
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> "If Python didn't support indentation-based block structure would you
still
> use it?"
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> :-)

I probably wouldn't have learned it - indentation based block
structure has been one of my "nice to have" things from at least
the middle '70s, so when I saw it in Python, I learned it to see how
it ran, and haven't looked back. However, it's not the reason I stay with
it.

John Roth
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> Skip
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