> It always puzzled me why so many Perl devs moved to Python when Ruby is a much closer fit. For me it was that I wanted to get away from Perl: the fact that R

> It always puzzled me why so many Perl devs moved to Python when Ruby is a much closer fit. For me it was that I wanted to get away from Perl: the fact that Ruby is like Perl is, from that point of view, a bad thing. I wanted something that would be clean, something that wouldn't surprise me, something where I could dig into someone else's code or revisit mine and not be lost. Python was, for many years, that language.