> It's early prioritization of text manipulation makes it not great at general purpose programming. Exactly, and that's where I went wrong the first time I lo

> It's early prioritization of text manipulation makes it not great at general purpose programming. Exactly, and that's where I went wrong the first time I looked at Perl. You can tell the language was designed by someone that knew a lot about text manipulation. That means it's really good at solving those problems. Unfortunately I wasn't using it for text manipulation at that time.