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		TheRevoltingX on May 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Use Perl: Reliability I've used Ruby, Java, and Perl professionally and my favorite by FAR is Perl.

gouranga on May 30, 2012 [–]

have you tried Python? I find it far more "normalised" than Ruby, Perl or Java.

TheRevoltingX on May 30, 2012 | [–]

Not yet, right now I have no need to learn yet another scripting language. I've been spending most of my language learning efforts on Erlang lately.

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