> During debate over his nomination, Bork's video rental history was leaked to the press. His video rental history was unremarkable, and included such harmless titles as A Day at the Races, Ruthless People, and The Man Who Knew Too Much. Writer Michael Dolan, who obtained a copy of the hand-written list of rentals, wrote about it for the Washington City Paper.[36] Dolan justified accessing the list on the ground that Bork himself had stated that Americans had only such privacy rights as afforded them by direct legislation. The incident led to the enactment of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act.[37][38]
Huh, I worked at a company that wrote 1.5 million lines of perl together, and we never ended up with those problems. Maybe you picked the wrong co-workers? You can screw up in any language.
One thing perl provides is a few examples of how to handle utf-8 better than Python does.
To put this another way, my 10-year-old perl-based web crawler did not have a problem crawling websites with umlauts in the hostname. Python is fixing supporting that new 2008 standard next year.
Don't forget to price in carbon emissions and the cost of pollution.