I've been playing around with perl over the last 10 years, and over the last 4 years or so doing perl professionally. Because I'm in the job market at the mome

I've been playing around with perl over the last 10 years, and over the last 4 years or so doing perl professionally. Because I'm in the job market at the moment I figured I'd take a closer look at Python and Ruby, so I'm concurrently reading two python/ruby books. To be honest, I don't see much in it. If I were to chose one I think I'd have to go with python, because Ruby looks to me, just like perl but with a different set of weird symbols to remember, and a slightly different set of downsides. Python on the other hand looks like a sufficiently different take on the dynamic language problem, so as to be more interesting. PHP I'm not bothering with right now. It's just like perl only with most, if not all of the design intelligence removed.