Data science involves building many statistical models, visualizing complex data structures in many ways, and summarizing results into "pretty" figures. In thi

Data science involves building many statistical models, visualizing complex data structures in many ways, and summarizing results into "pretty" figures. In this way, the statistical packages and plotting software in Python is better than Perl. I would say R is even better than Python and Perl for certain statistical analyses and quickly plotting complex data in different ways. Perl might beat other languages in wrangling certain types of data like comma separated values or other 2D arrays in terms of writing expressive one-liners. Perhaps that is what you mean by "naturally efficient"? How much one can do in one line of code?