Re: Perl Programming within Debian

From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:16:06 -0500

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 05:57:47PM +0000, Joe wrote:

There are certainly more attractive languages than Perl, which has a
few features which are not intuitive, but I don't think any have the
same range of libraries. You can find a ready-made module to do almost
anything you can imagine.

Python is quickly catching up to Perl in the extent of available
libraries and modules.

Regards,

-Roberto

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