Gabor Szabo wrote: > 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 ?
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