+100 I loved Perl, but it had a culture of doing things in N different ways, too many shortcuts, and you ended up with incredibly tiny scripts which were unrea

+100 I loved Perl, but it had a culture of doing things in N different ways, too many shortcuts, and you ended up with incredibly tiny scripts which were unreadable -- even to the author -- a month later. This wasnt practical for business use in the face of more consistent code from Python