Why use Python when we've got Perl?

[Robin Becker]

In article <37b610c1 at cs.colorado.edu>, Tom Christiansen
<tchrist at mox.perl.com> writes
>     [courtesy cc of this posting mailed to cited author]
>
>In comp.lang.python, 
>    Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk> writes:
>:Lets face it; the perlers have a fairly hopeless position when it comes
>:to defending the perl language 
>
>I'm going to pretend you didn't just now so egregiously underestimate
>both the acumen and the tenacity of those whom you don't know, for
>any other response would lead inexorably to ratholes so tortuous as to
>captivate Borges, so black as to plunge Pollyanna into deepest despair.
>For your own personal benefit, however, you might in the future take
>some care to avoid repeating that particular stultiloquy. :-)
>
>--tom
defense defense, did you get upset from my reasonably positive post.
shame. I guess all these years you've been casting perls before this
swine. Flame on if that's what you like.
-- 
Robin Becker