As to why as opposed to what, I am attempting to build a search engine right now that plans to crawl not just html but other things too.
I am open to learning, and I don't want to learn anything that doesn't really contribute to building my search engine for the moment. Hence I want to see whether learning PERL will be helpful to the later parts of my search engine. Victor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
