Python vs. Perl, which is better to learn?

[Aahz]

In article <3CDAF2A7.2DADEB14 at fnal.gov>,
David J. Ritchie <ritchie at fnal.gov> wrote:
>Gerhard Häring wrote:
>>
>> Aahz, I don't get it why you're insisting on this. Would "refactoring"
>> ring any bells?
>>
>> Yes, I do it myself, and yes, it's a non-issue with vim.

Most of my experience with refactoring has been essentially in-place
(WRT the way one edits, at least).

>In any case, I am reluctant to drag everyone through my imperfect
>programming practices as useful as I find them....my main point was that
>if context sensitivity is considered to be a difficulty in understandability
>in programming languages (of which Perl has some) then (in the spirit
>of being able to argue both sides of the question as a way of proving
>that one has thought through the issues), it seems that Python has a
>context sensitivity difficulty in the area of the treatment of tabs
>as identifying blocks of code.

I guess I was carping at your point because I see it as an issue in most
programming languages (I'm tempted to say "all", but I know better than
to make foolish overgeneralizations ;-): how does one suitably indicate
blocks of code for editing?  Python's syntax makes the approach to the
issue a bit different, but it's fundamentally the same issue.
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