On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 09:03:28AM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> Jaco Swart wrote:
> >So what's your gripe with Perl, then?
> Haha. I knew somebody would bite sooner or later.
> Write something largish (> 500 lines) in perl and then write the same
> program in python.
> Then you'll understand.
Or, you might not. There are many people that are, to varying degrees,
happy writing software in Perl up to and exceeding 500 lines of code.
There are also people who understand the limitations of Perl (and,
often, other languages) and still choose Perl because it's the best tool
for the job.
Cheers,
-mjg
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