Is Perl *that* good? (was: How's ruby compare to it older bro

[Peter Hansen]

Peter Maas wrote:

> Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
>> I guess it would be interesting to pose the question back to
>> them "If you could not use regexes in Perl, would you still
>> like to program in it?" or "If you couldn't use mysql in PHP
>> would you still use it?"
>>
>> What similar question, if any, would be a difficult one for
>> us Python types?
> 
> If you could not use block indentation in Python, would you
> still like to program in it? :-)

The way I indent my braces (the One True Way ;-), I wouldn't
really mind, I suppose:

def install(name)
     {
     if os.path.exists(name)
         {
         path, ext = os.path.splitext(name)
         if ext == '.zip'
             {
             try
                 {
                 x = Extractor(name)
                 path = os.path.join(x.extract(), path.replace('_', '.'))
                 }
             finally
                 {
                 x.close()
                 }
             }
         else
             {
             path = name
             }
         }
     }

-Peter