Does Python help with the no-Unix handicap?

[Neurocrat]

Garry Hodgson <garry at sage.att.com> writes:

> Aahz Maruch wrote:
> 
> > Like Grant, I've been using Unix about fifteen years, and I find Perl
> > bizarre and difficult.
> 
> after reading several responses like this, i wonder if perl
> is particularly irritating to old timers.  twenty years ago,
> this kind of obscure but powerful notation (as embodies in awk
> and such), was really cool.  but after a while the appeal kind
> of wears thin, particularly when you find something that gives
> you the same power but without the obscurity.
> 
> i find i'm more enamored of elegance these days.

Me too.
Now if only I could find it in an OS ...