Hello Perl community. First of all, i'd want you know that the objetive of this question is _not_ for create polemic about perl and python... I'm learning Perl, and for curiosity i've seen some comparisions about Perl and other programming lenguages like: PHP, shell scripting, awk, etc... I also read some comparisions about Perl and Python, and in many of them, (which are posted in www.python.org) says that, one could consider Python rather than Perl for some reasons like this: - Python has a cleaner syntaxis and it makes the code more readable and easy for mantain, so some people that are computer programmers says that, when you are coding a large application with Perl often you get confused, and many times you can't understand the code.. Another feature for Python over Perl is that Python is more OO than Perl.. Now, my question is: ¿What features do you think Perl has over Python? Thanks for your answers..

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