Does Python help with the no-Unix handicap?

[Garry Hodgson]

Aahz Maruch wrote:

> Like Grant, I've been using Unix about fifteen years, and I find Perl
> bizarre and difficult.

after reading several responses like this, i wonder if perl
is particularly irritating to old timers.  twenty years ago,
this kind of obscure but powerful notation (as embodies in awk
and such), was really cool.  but after a while the appeal kind
of wears thin, particularly when you find something that gives
you the same power but without the obscurity.

i find i'm more enamored of elegance these days.

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