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From: John Bokma <john@castleamber.com>
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Subject: Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 14:14:15 -0500
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Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> writes:

> Terry Reedy wrote:
>> On 5/25/2011 8:01 AM, John Bokma wrote:
>>
>>> to. Like I already stated before: if Python is really so much better
>>> than Python readability wise, why do I have such a hard time dropping
>>> Perl and moving on?
>>
>> [you meant 'than Perl'] You are one of the people whose brain fits
>> Perl (or vice versa) better than most. So enjoy it. Ignore anyone
>> who says otherwise.
>
> +1
>
> If everybody's brain worked the same, we wouldn't have so many
> different languages to choose from.

So, this means that in general language readability is not as clear cut
as some seem to advertise ;-).

-- 
John Bokma                                                               j3b

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