Readability is subjective. Python code frustrates me because I can't tell when blocks end; for some reason, my mind ignores horizontal whitespace in the same w

Readability is subjective. Python code frustrates me because I can't tell when blocks end; for some reason, my mind ignores horizontal whitespace in the same way that other people can't understand sigils. Python has long had a huge advantage with its REPL; the Perl 5 debugger is clunky and difficult to use and, despite some heroic refactorings, still a mess. Perl 5 lifted Python's OO model. That's why both languages have an explicit self and why neither language makes a strong distinction between functions and methods. A method is merely a function installed into a namespace and somehow invoked as a method. As for Perl 6, most of everything good that's happened in Perl 5 over the past several years has roots in Perl 6. I'm not claiming that without Perl 6 these things wouldn't have happened, merely that they did as a direct result of Perl 6. This includes the book Perl Best Practices and the Perl testing renaissance.