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"Joona I Palaste" <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi> wrote in message
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> ... But C and C++ are a
> breeze compared to the likes of Perl, Python and Lisp.

I find Perl particularly obtuse. Perl reminds me of those comics where
obscene language is replaced by a string of random puctuation characters.
Frankly, I don't understand how Perl has caught on when there are more
powerful, and more readable, string processing languages available.