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Almost flamebait...   :)

There seem to be two completely different mindsets between perl and
python. The "there's more than one way to do it" from perl give a huge
amount of freedom to the developer at the expense of cryptic code to
debug later. Python requires some very rigid coding constraints
(whitespace counts is the first one to encounter) that can make for more
readable code later. But the module base in perl is much larger. 

I have several friends that have done loads of perl and switched to
python and are completely happy (and chide me to do the same.). Yes,
there is a learning curve (and for a perl coder, probably and
_un_learning curve as well!). I keep tinkering with bits of python (it's
the backend for lots of the redhat based distro's admin UI stuff) but
have not made "the leap" as I have 2 large apps in perl that I work in
and support (sql-ledger and interchange) and adding another set of rules
to work with might cause a brain melt-down (I guess COMMENTS are for
wimps and losers. Argh!).

My physics friends tell me python with NumPy is what is pretty much
running the collider at FermiLab.

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