During the beginner Perl classes I teach people often ask me why is Perl better than .... X ?
where X is one of their favorite languages, in the case of my classes it is usuall C or UNIX shell but I guess other people would ask about other languages. I have certain set of answeres at least for these two languages but I'd be glad if I had more explanation, or even better a (nearl :-) ballanced 1 to 1 comparison between Perl and X where X can be anything. Can you send me items that I can tell to my students ? Do you know about a site or documents where Perl is compared to C/Shell/Java/Python/VB ? reagrds -- Gabor
