Alternatives to Python ?

[Peter Hansen]

achrist at easystreet.com wrote:
> 
> This is not to say that everything else is worthless, just that
> Python aims at a certain niche, and there isn't much else that
> does exactly the same.  It depends on what you want to do, but
> when you want to do what Python does, the alternatives feel a
> little like a tube running down your leg with a bottle in your
> boot.

For example, using Perl, which is a lot like what you describe 
above, minus the tube and the bottle...

-Peter