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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 10:17:15 -0700
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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.

~Ethan~