Better OO than the competing scripting languages, CPAN still beats any opposition (check CPAN testers), extensible syntax(!) etc.
And... you don't lose a hype war if you didn't really play it.
http://dheeb.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/gbu.pdf
Perl does Unicode right. Look at page #3.
Anyway, I thought Guido told 'em to stop, since they're getting a bad reputation?
Better OO than the competing scripting languages, CPAN still beats any opposition (check CPAN testers), extensible syntax(!) etc.
And... you don't lose a hype war if you didn't really play it.