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  7. From: pygmy@eskimo.com (Frank Sergeant)
  8. To: icon-group@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU
  9. Subject: Re: using Icon for database application
  10. Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:22:26 -0500
  11. Reply-To: frank.sergeant@pobox.com
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  18. I recently wrote:
  19.  
  20. >                     Python and Perl sound good to me
  21. >         primarily because of the delightfully literateness
  22. >         of the Pythona Perl books' authors.  I'm agreeable
  23. >         to the idea that Perl's syntax is too muddy.  Perl
  24.                                                         ^^^^
  25. >         still looks good.  (Can anyone comment on the
  26. >         various tradeoffs between these languages and Icon?)
  27.  
  28.      Oops, that was a typo.  I meant to say that, while I'm
  29. tentatively ready to reject Perl because of its syntax, _Python_
  30. still looks good.
  31.  
  32.  
  33.   -- Frank
  34.   frank.sergeant@pobox.com
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