Python spends most of it's time in C extensions for most applications, so performance isn't as big of an issue. Perl is.... perl. If you read it it's not at a

Python spends most of it's time in C extensions for most applications, so performance isn't as big of an issue. Perl is.... perl. If you read it it's not at all obvious what's happening. They don't believe in the one and only one obvious way principle.