Perl Vs Python

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Peter Hansen wrote:
> (Troll-bait cross-post to comp.lang.perl.misc removed.)
> 
> Matija Papec wrote:
> 
>>X-Ftn-To: Cameron Laird
>>
>>claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) wrote:
>>
>>>In article <b3kkdl$fvl$1 at news.peterlink.ru>,
>>>Anton Muhin  <antonmuhin at sendmail.ru> wrote:
>>>
>>>>If you are interested, there is really nice book about text processing
>>>>in Python (I don't remember URL :().
>>>
>>>                      .
>>>                      .
>>>Sean McGrath's *XML Processing with Python*?
>>
>>Yes, but anyway who would pick Python over Perl(or Ruby?) for text
>>processing? <evil grin> :)
> 
> 
> Those who need to maintain their code perhaps?
> 
> Anyway, XML is not text.
XML - just a bad notation to represent trees.
> 
> Well, it's stored in "text files", but it's not text.
> 
> If you know what I mean.
> 
> (If it were just text, we would still be using text, not XML.)
> 
> Anyway.... ;-)
> 
> -Peter