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

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Monday 19 May 2003 08:24, Graham Nicholls wrote:
> And remembered why I decided I must learn Python :-)
> 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.
> Graham
> --
> Graham Nicholls
> All round good guy.

Since you are experimenting, perhaps you should give Ruby a look.  Kind of the 
best of both Perl and Python.  Still has $&@% but not quite as bad.

I personally prefer Python but it never hurts to look over the fence at the 
neighbors lawn.