Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <slrnactndm.b2u.ak at ak.silmarill.org>,
Andrei Kulakov  <ak at silmarill.org> wrote:
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>> I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but I've found that operators 
>> and sys admins use perl and that developers tend towards python. Also sys 
>> admins rarely utilise indirection but developers do.
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>What do you mean by indirection?
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That one more application of which is alleged to solve all 
algorithmic problems (look for "David Wheeler" in <URL:
http://www1.ics.uci.edu/~rohit/IEEE-L7-namespaces.html >).
Examples:  in Python we idomatically parametrize by putting
stuff in a dictionary, and computing with the dictionary.
The previous correspondent was saying something like this:
"sysads write
  log('/tmp/mylogfile');
where developers are likely to put
  logfile = '/tmp/mylogfile'
   ...
  log(logfile)
"

"Indirection" means something different in psychology,
journalism, and so on.
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