Re: Comparing Regular Expression in Perl vs Python

I also subscribed to python list, found that python list's message
amount is much larger than perl beginner's. I almost got 100 messages
each day in that list. Does this indicate that python has more users
than perl?

On Nov 30, 2007 5:17 PM, Purohit, Bhargav <bhargav.purohit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Tom for describing perl in very short but very sweet way!

"In a perfect world, you would learn every possible programming
language, then you could always choose the best one for each task. If
you did that, you'd probably write most of your programs in Perl."

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