Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

[Christopher Browne]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when peter at abbnm.com (Peter da Silva) would write:
> In article <m3bsbybdnl.fsf at chvatal.cbbrowne.com>,
> Christopher Browne  <cbbrowne at acm.org> wrote:
>> It's probably fair to call C++ the PL/1 of the 1990s;
>
> That is HORRIBLY unfair to PL/I.

Why not?

-> Both are complex languages;
-> Both had periods of considerable popularity; 
-> Both were billed as the preferred replacements for practically all
   of their predecessors.

PL/1 was certainly pegged as the successor to both COBOL and FORTRAN;
in practice, it really only succeeded COBOL, and that only in part.

C++ has had similar "billings" with not dissimilar success.

None of that points to any of the _technical_ qualities of the
languages, but I wasn't pointing at all at technicalities in this
context...
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