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in reply to Perl's rank among languages

Repeat after me:
All languages are created equal*

Use the best tool for the job.

Though some languages are more equal than others

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Re(2): Perl's rank among languages
by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Jan 02, 2002 at 21:43 UTC

    Use the best tool for the job.

    The job in question is improving some rather public Perl code, not frothing-at-the-mouth language advocacy.

    Update: I do appreciate the sentiment wrt. actual unreasoning-advocacy, though.

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    :wq
      Ah, that's what I get for not reading the entire post. My language-advocacy-alarm went off a bit too soon. I apologize.

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