is perl better?

[Ville Vainio]

>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> writes:

    >> 3. Read win perl source to determine what system calls it is
    >> using and then use Hammond's PyWin extensions to do same from
    >> Python.

    Christian> Well, I never claimed that Python is always better than
    Christian> Perl.  There are cases where Perl is really better than
    Christian> Python.  This might be such a case, and I don't mind.

I don't think this has anything to do with language features. It's a
library issue. Perl achieves the functionality by some system calls,
and I can't see why Python couldn't be made to execute the same system
calls. In fact it would seem trivial, Perl is OSS after all.

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