It doesn't offend me, it just isn't related to the point I was making. You replied to me as if that sort of test is relevant and I don't think it is. The analog

It doesn't offend me, it just isn't related to the point I was making. You replied to me as if that sort of test is relevant and I don't think it is. The analogy to bash is similarly not suitable for this kind of argument - bash has never had any ambition to be a general purpose programming language, perl very much did. Unfortunately for perl, perl's own efforts in that regard pretty much eliminated the possibility of that ever happening. Python's trajectory hasn't been that, even with the travails of the 2/3 transition. 'look at how perl did things!' is just a really strange approach in a discussion about the Python 2/3 thing. That operation was successful, the patient died.