Migrating to perl?

[Remco Gerlich]

Thomas A. Bryan <tbryan at python.net> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> That's funny.  Although there *is* more than one way to do this in Python, 
> Python users don't seem to care for exercises in finding and displaying 
> "neat tricks" in Python.  Most of the newsgroup postings seem to be 
> discussion of usage of a particular module, how the language (should) 
> work, and implementing a well-designed class/component.
> 
> Of course, there was the one time that Gerrit claimed to have ripped 
> off the open and close brace keys from his keyboard because of his 
> zeal for Python.  I remember a long discussion about how to slice and 
> index without brackets.  :)

And the answers that go like: 

"No, there's no way to do that."

(pause during which something horrible clicks in the posters' mind) 

"Actually, you *could* take the bytecodehacks module, a traceback from a
dummy exception, 2cc of mouse blood, and a marshalled code object..."

Usually followed by a huge block of code that means absolutely 
nothing to me...


-- 
Remco Gerlich

print "Just another Python hacker."