I had the same experience. Perl clicked for me, but not Python. A few years ago, I switched to Go for performance and it has clicked as well. Go is a rather spa

I had the same experience. Perl clicked for me, but not Python. A few years ago, I switched to Go for performance and it has clicked as well. Go is a rather sparse language relative to Perl (and TIMTOWTDI), so I'm a bit surprised that it was a natural switch.