[roryrjb]

But why obnoxious? Do you know how old Perl is? Have you written shell scripts before? My point is, some of choices Larry and others made wouldn't necessarily be made today, but there's a history, a lineage, a reason for all of this. I actually like the magic variables, but as I said in my other comment, you need to learn it first. X language is an unreadable heap of spaghetti if the programmer writes X language in an unreadable way.

[TylerE]

Python only postdates Perl by 3 years.

[isostatic]

Perl5 - which is what people refer to as "perl" - came out in 1994.

Python3, which is incompatable with python2, came out in 2008.

[TylerE]

Way to move the goal posts into separate area codes.

If you're going to judge python by python3 you should at least hold perl to 5.020

[08-15]

> Do you know how old Perl is?

Same age as Haskell.