Ok, I may have been a bit dramatic. True enough, such debates are frequent in the community, but the "vs" in the subject offers no indication of whether it is a flame, and I find the majority of them are merely debates. Note if you will, that I said "Perl is..". In general, that refers to those who actively contribute to the language (in whichever form). I find that while they are passionate about the language, they also mostly keep a remarkably calm and unthreatened composure. It is often them who will step in to concede an inferiority of Perl.
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One of the things that makes Perl great is that not only will the major hackers admit when another language is better at somthing, they will often try to fix that... normaly by taking the other language's features, making them fit the Perl mindset, and hacking them in.
It's a testimate to the power of Perl (the language) how often these can be worked in without writing any C.
We are using here a powerful strategy of synthesis: wishful thinking. -- The Wizard Book
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