[toast0]

> Perl has a painful syntax, Python greatly improves on this with easy syntax.

That's a matter of opinion. C style languages are a lot easier for me than whitespace significant languages; my editor will go to the matching bracket with ^G, but I can't do that with whitespace to get to the end of a block. The type sigils are a bit tricky to figure out, but if you spend the time to understand it, it makes sense (but that's also a mater of opinion, too).

[vultour]

Nobody complaining about Perl's syntax is complaining about the "C style". Reading the arcane incantations of magical $ variables gets really old really fast, Perl takes the "if it was hard to figure out then the code must be hard to read" to a whole new level. It's probably the only mainstream non-functional language where you can be absolutely unable to decypher a snippet of code even though you know another C-like language.