Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 18:43, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
>> No doubt .. might I add that Perl is much nearly ubiquitous on *nix
>> machines - thats the part that makes Perl most useful to my job :)
>
> True, since it's progeny are sed, awk & grep.
Oh, come on. Even Larry Wall will say it is more bastardized than
that. There's some Ada, Lisp, and C in there, too.
Python is ok, it just doesn't have the ecclectic wonderful-ness that
Perl does. Or CPAN. Or CPAN.pm.
Mark.
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