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10th August 2003

Danny O’Brien compares Perl with Python. Best observation: Python code just doesn’t have much personality compared to Perl.

Posted 10th August 2003 at 10:28 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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