As someone who began his programming career with Perl I've never understood this idea that Python somehow improved on Perl. For a start Ruby is Perl5's most obv

As someone who began his programming career with Perl I've never understood this idea that Python somehow improved on Perl. For a start Ruby is Perl5's most obvious successor. Perl puts Python's text-handling to shame whilst Python's lambda is nowhere near as expressive as Perl's. Python also goes head-to-head with Perl's fundamental philosophy - TIMTOWTDI. If anything Python is the Anti-Perl.