age of new pythonistas [was: The Editor Poll results are in!]

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pinard at iro.umontreal.ca  wrote in message 
> Even if I prefer Python to Perl, I would never even think that Perl is not
> well designed.  When I was using Perl, as a user (not as a reader of books
> about it :-), I found that Perl allowed me to quickly write my code, it
> was full of good ideas, and I felt the language quite fulfilled its promises.
> 

Perl seemed to me to be well designed but not 'easily accessible'. 
There's an overhead to Perl.  I found that I always was aware of the
fact that I was 'programming in Perl'.  In Python, I usually am only
vaguely aware that I'm 'programming' as opposed to just thinking.

Just my $0.02,
Patrick