Re: Comparing Regular Expression in Perl vs Python

it may mean that fewer people ask questions about perl because

1) perl is easier to use
2) perl is more mature and people are more versed in it
3) python is newer so more people are unfamiliar with it
4) people are afraid to ask questions on the perl list for fear of being told to RTFM

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Pang <pangj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Nov 30, 2007 7:00 AM
To: beginners list <beginners@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: 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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