Python vs. Perl

[Thomas Wouters]

On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 04:22:47AM +0000, Gisle Aas wrote:
> Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> writes:

> > God, yes. That was in the top-2 of my Perl hash annoyances :) The top-1 is,
> > of course, that you have to go through oddball magic just to see what a hash
> > contains. I prefer 'print dict' <wink>.

> I would not really call invocation of a function "oddball magic":

>     print Dumper($hash);

It is if you have never heard of 'Dumper' once in 4 years of programming
Perl, while sitting across the room from a Perl guru who started programming
in Perl 3 ;)

-- 
Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net>

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