Perl Vs Python

[Peter Hansen]

David wrote:
> 
> "John Smith" <someone at microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ixT6a.239117$tq4.5756 at sccrnsc01...
> > Hello:
> >   do Perl & Python do similar things?
> >   What should be the rationalle to one or the other?
> > Thanks.
> 
> If you want a lot of replies you should post to comp.lang.perl.misc
> rather than comp.lang.perl
> 
> PS. I don't know much about Python, but some of the best features of
> perl are associative arrays, and regex.  If python does not have one of
> those two, I would exclusively use perl even if I knew python.

But of course, as a few seconds of googling would show, Python *does*
have both of those things, and much more besides.