Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: geek [mailto:geek+ at andrew.cmu.edu] 
> 
> Then <3CDAB85B.C49BABD9 at fnal.gov>, spoke up and said:
> > David J. Ritchie <ritchie at fnal.gov> wrote:
> > >David deleted Aahz's attribution:
> > >> Actually, I have a different point: why are you moving blocks of 
> > >> code?
> > >It's a matter of writing in which I move from a rough draft to a 
> > >final document (whether code or natural language).
> > Could you provide an example in which you did this for code?
> 
> Eh, I do this all the time.  It turns out I'm a pretty crappy 
> programmer, so I end up with functions which are "too long". 
> Eventually I'll factor out some code and use cut-and-paste to 
> create a new function.  Pretty often I have to indent/dedent 
> to make the old code match the new block.  It's no biggie, 
> though, 'cause I use xemacs so I can just C-c < or C-c > as necessary.

Can we assume that you would reindent the code to fit the surroundings
if you were writing in e.g. C also?

-- bjorn