>It basically kicks arse for all those things. Especially Data manipulation
>(mmmmm regular expressions), and it's easy to learn the basics, and there
>is lots more to learn as well.
I love Perl, but to be realistic it requires a lot of context. When they
talk about string character escapes and notation for non-decimal
constants, that's taken from C, when they talk about regexes, that's an
extended form of the Unix regex syntax, when they talk about pipes and
filter, that's taken from the Unix command shell + stdio. The variable
syntax is a bit BASICy. Not surprising, Larry borrowed from these
languages. However, there is more than one way to do it so you can write
programs as verbose or as cryptic as you like.
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