Just took a look in the perl newsgroup....

[Aahz]

In article <1H6ya.6977$573.2647 at news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>,
Graham Nicholls  <graham at rockcons.co.uk> wrote:
>
>And remembered why I decided I must learn Python :-)

Congrats!  Hallelujah!  You've seen the light!  ;-)

>I clearly need to learn "the Python Way", which _is_ quite different,
>and has its good and bad points (stamps foot.  I _want_ a case
>statement).  But thank goodness for the sparse syntax, and minimalism.
>I guess I'll live with no case just to forget about @ % $ etc.

Don't forget that in many situations Python's substitutes for
switch/case are better than an actual switch/case.  Even more don't
forget that Perl doesn't actually have a switch/case, either.
-- 
Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com)           <*>         http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from
many other languages & styles:  boring syntax, unsurprising semantics,
few automatic coercions, etc etc.  But that's one of the things I like
about it."  --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 93