For the last year or so, on the recommendation of a dear friend, I’ve been learning to program in Python. It’s a beautiful language, much enhanced by Mark Pilgrim’s excellent introductory text Dive Into Python, which contains many insightful observations such as the following:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
–Jamie Zawinski, in comp.emacs.xemacs