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

[leeg]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> 
> I guess it would be interesting to pose the question back to
> them "If you could not use regexes in Perl, would you still
> like to program in it?" or "If you couldn't use mysql in PHP
> would you still use it?"
> 
> What similar question, if any, would be a difficult one for
> us Python types?
> 
"If you couldn't write any program your imagination came up with in Python,
or couldn't at least prototype it, or it took longer to write in Python
than it did in C or Objective-C, would you still use it?"

That's my question.  I don't write operating systems or control nuclear
reactors (not real ones anyway).
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