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From: tim_one at email.msn.com (Tim Peters)
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 03:07:17 -0400
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Subject: converting perl to python - simple questions.
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In-Reply-To: <aahzFAww6J.Cr2@netcom.com>
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Message-ID: <000e01be920e$ea9e6880$199e2299@tim>
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X-UID: 328
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[Aahz Maruch]
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> ...
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> Perl 5 has been out for more than two years, and there are so many
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> improvements that I don't know of *anyone* who's doing new work
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> in Perl 4.
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I do -- one crusty Unix sysadmin in particular who doesn't trust "all that
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new stuff", still using his "better the devil you know" <wink> old Perl4.
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He won't use Python either. I subscribe him to functional-language mailing
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lists just to keep him off balance <wink>.
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perl-has-72-iterations-to-go-to-catch-up-to-fortran77-ly y'rs - tim
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