Perl Whitespace Reg Expression

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Sunday 09 October 2005 15:15, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >Just a minor nitpick. I use
> >
> >   my @line = split('\s+', $_);

Since we're nit-picking (sorry for the long overdue post), I prefer the 
following since it is cmdline-friendly:

split(/\s/, $stuff);
>
> Right!  My perl's getting rusty as I've been doing most of my
> development in python for the last year or so (with lots of
> commented curly braces to make vi's % key happy :-).

What do you think of python?  I've spoken to some real supporters.  I've only 
in recent years picked up perl, and python is indent-blocked.  That is scary.
Ruby is another interesting option.  But I'm committed to learning Python a 
bit.  I've bought the O'Reilly Pocket guide and printed off some tutorials.  
Seems easy enough, now I just gotta use it a bit.

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