I liked perl, and later python. Python was harder to write - it was less expressive to me than perl, which could say stuff like "unless <bleh>" while python wo

I liked perl, and later python. Python was harder to write - it was less expressive to me than perl, which could say stuff like "unless <bleh>" while python would require "if not <bleh>" it was more regular, more compact and was visually easier to read but it was the python standard library that kept me going back, because I could solve lots of problems without reinventing the wheel, or becoming a sysadmin to install a package my lowly script required.