I certainly feel the same pull. My time on Hacker News has led me to pursue Python vigorously and I have found that there are certain things that Perl is just l

I certainly feel the same pull. My time on Hacker News has led me to pursue Python vigorously and I have found that there are certain things that Perl is just less verbose with. The thing that I don't like about it is that is so easy for n00bs to screw up and it's very easy to write poor Perl code. CPAN/easy_install... it's two jelly bellys in the same bag to me.