[tomjen3]

Because everything perl can do python can do better? Okay that is a though claim but perl and python fit about the same area - a dynamically typed scripting language that can take over when that shell script gets too big and all the way up to a full-blown app or website, but you are not going to win any prizes for speed - but python doesn't have all the weird crap that goes along with perl (what exactly does $#% mean again?) and it has everything else.

Perl was a great language in its day but I just don't see a case where are new programmer is better of starting a new project in perl rather than python.

[cms07]

Why wouldn't you want sigils?