Does Python help with the no-Unix handicap?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <Cl%05.2665$cQ.22917 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Neil Hodgson <neilh at scintilla.org> wrote:
>
>   I think that was part of my problem with Perl. While I can use Unix, its
>at a low level of competence - I count myself lucky to survive a session
>with vi without pulling the power cord to stop the torture. Coming from an
>RSX/11M+, Mac, OS/2, Windows background I found the syntax choices in Perl,
>which probably appear obvious to native Unixers, bizarre and difficult to
>reason with. 

Like Grant, I've been using Unix about fifteen years, and I find Perl
bizarre and difficult.  Perl is not a programming language, it is an
augmented shell scripting language on steroids, and the contrast with
Python makes that painfully apparent.
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