I was about to say, as much as I enjoy python. Perl is more effective than Python. You can do some pretty amazing things in Perl in a few lines. You can also d

I was about to say, as much as I enjoy python. Perl is more effective than Python. You can do some pretty amazing things in Perl in a few lines. You can also do amazingly readable scripts in Perl. But... if you aren't careful how you write perl, it's a very bad pit to fall down to. Python just forces you to write code that's better for the team.