Python versus Perl ?

[Fredrik Lundh]

m" <m at m.com> wrote:

>>>If Python is better than Perl, I'm curious how really significant
>>>those advantages are ?
>
> speedwise, i think perl is faster than python and python performed the slowest as shown in 
> http://www.flat222.org/mac/bench/

if you use Python mostly to write empty loops, your programming license
should be revoked.  the benchmark author seems to have realized that, as
can be seen from the "it's dead" paragraph at the top of the page, which
makes me wonder why you posted this link...

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