Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

[Joshua Tompkins]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message news:<yFfC8.103103$q8.10555170 at bin3.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com>...

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> My only direct real-time experience was writing an analysis program
> for radiation counts that arrived in batches of three once a minute.
> I wrote in Basic for a Kaypro connected by a 300/1200 baud serial
> line.  Worked fine.  But I understand that things now are often (but
> not always) quite different.

Ha!  I've some (limited but fairly recent) experience programming an
board produced by the Rigel Corporation (www.rigelcorp.com), built
around an Intel 8051, on which one of the supported languages is in
fact an Intel implementation of BASIC.  With mandatory line numbers,
no less.

-joshua