Howdy!

By a quirk of timing, this was revealed to me at the same time I posted my reply that appeared immediately above it. It took me a moment's careful looking to confirm that it wasn't aimed at me...however, the shoe fits :)

Right now, my new employer (big sigh of relief over leaving the coprs of the unemployed) wants me to come up to speed on the tools they use, and Python isn't one of them, but Perl is. I've already caused the head tech in my group to suggest that we need to use Perl a lot more (vice Korn shell, mostly).

I keep telling myself that it might be useful to take a real look at Python (or Java), but somehow it never makes it high enough on my priority list.

I call it laziness...you might call it sloth. I might even not disagree.

yours,
Michael

Update: I got it in one; I'm just explaining why that approach is not suited to my situation at this time. I took all your points to be implicit...

In reply to Re^3: Why I choose Perl by herveus
in thread Why I choose Perl by merlyn

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