in reply to Perl-AMPL article in DDJ and TPJ

Seeing I'm not a subscriber, how about a brief summary/review?

Also, when they are listing languages, I didn't notice Python and/or Ruby being considered. While it's a pain in the butt to always defend choices, when they are defending one choice as "ease of creation", I think "ease of maintaince" would also be a concern. Not saying that Perl is wrong, it's far from it. Not trying to be a troll at all, it's just that they compared apples and elephants, when languages that were very Perl like weren't considered?