>>> On 10/3/2008 at 8:31 AM, in message <48E61EC2.8030202 at tcbug.org>, Josh Paetzel <josh at tcbug.org> wrote: > My advice to people is, if you've gone through the work of learning > perl, all of it's operators, all of it's special cases and exceptions > (and there's a lot of those) all of it's commonly used paradigms, then > there's no compelling reason to change. If you are wanting to learn > something today, python and ruby are attractive choices. What about them make them more attractive choices than Perl? Because Python and Ruby have fewer operators, special cases, exceptions, and common paradigms?