From: "Shawn H. Corey" <shawnhco...@gmail.com> > Dave Tang wrote: > > I wanted to ask why is Perl, in comparison to other programming > > languages, so powerful in text processing? > > Undoubtedly, when it was written, Perl was the most powerful text > processing language available. This is no longer the case (thanks > largely to Perl :). Today's scripting languages have the same text > processing abilities as Perl.
Some of them do have the same basic functionality. None of them has such a huge archive of ready-to-use libraries for all kinds of (not only) text processing. Sure you can write the same libraries in the other langauges, but the problem is exactly that. You have to write them. Jenda ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
