I like your comments and respect your position. I remember your earlier comments that you referred to here.

Quite frankly, I agree with you with respect to the difficulty (and probably the futility) of trying to compare the two (or more) languages. My brief interlude with Python was not bad...I just kept thinking about how Perl does things and found that my satisfaction with Perl left me without much committment to "learn a new language." It truely had nothing to do with Python...in fact what little time I spent with Python revealed some pretty neat features.

Your analogy to trying to pick a best human spoken language is most insightful.

Thanks for your reply. I will definitely do a little web-browsing to see some of the comparisons.

At the end of the day, as many others noted in their various replies, I am satisfied with Perl...it does what I need...so, for me, that trumps pretty much any issue that could possibly come out of any "which language is best" discussion thread.

I truely appreciate your wisdom.

ack Albuquerque, NM

In reply to Re^5: Perl holds its own against Python Ruby et al by ack
in thread Perl holds its own against Python Ruby et al by Gavin

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