why isn't python more popular?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <m31yzs4frg.fsf at underlevel.underlevel.net>,
Jordan Katz  <katz at underlevel.net> wrote:
>aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
>>
>> Unless those people have Perl as their *only* programming language, I
>> bet that most of them would find reading *other* people's Python
>> programs easier to read than other people's Perl programs, after only
>> one day of training in Python.
>
>I think this point is stretched a little too much.  In general, I
>agree; Python's more readable than Perl, but it *is* possible to write
>very nice, readable, and concise code in Perl.  It's upto the
>programmer more than the language. 

In some ways, you do have a point.  OTOH, it is impossible to escape the
fact that Perl relies on line noise for meaning, and unless one is
expert at intepreting that line noise, Perl is always more difficult to
read than Python.
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