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

[Peter Hansen]

leeg wrote:

> 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).

I guess it's pretty easy to come up with such questions if
you leave it wide open.

Perhaps I should have said "limit yourself to questions involving
key pieces of functionality, external libraries, or specific
syntax" or something like that...

-Peter