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bootload on Oct 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0

"At work, I have been using Perl 5 increasingly often over the past two years, mainly because handling unicode in Python 2 is not a lot of fun (and I still haven't come around to learning Python 3),"

Why?

peteretep on Oct 7, 2015 [–]

From what he's saying, it's because of Perl 5's excellent Unicode support.

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