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

[Cameron Laird]

In article <c6jdsu$n1j$1 at news.ox.ac.uk>,
leeg  <leeg at teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk.valid> wrote:
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>OK, fair enough.  In that case, there is no reason for me to be using Python
>(except that it's easy to write and easy to read, which is good enough for
>me).  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 :-)
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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!
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